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My take: Microsoft can't make a mobile OS that doesn't suck, so they want to leech income from those who can, using the power of Extremely Broad Software Patent
by billybob 17y ago
My take: Microsoft can't make a mobile OS that doesn't suck, so they want to leech income from those who can, using the power of Extremely Broad Software Patents.
I don't see this as a story about new and interesting alliances of enemies. I see it as a story about substituting litigation for innovation.
- ajross 17y agoActually, Microsoft does make a mobile OS that "doesn't suck", at least in the sense that it's a mobile OS that HTC wants to sell on their own devices. This is just price negotiation inside an existing business relationship, nothing more. It's true that MS used this trick in the 90's in ways that were anticompetitive (Dell paying MS for every computer sold meant that they had no incentive to bundle other operating systems), but that's not the situation here.