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here's another take: Patent protection key to Windows Phone 7 license "Microsoft may be one of the only remaining mobile operating-system providers that charg
by radley 16y ago
here's another take:
Patent protection key to Windows Phone 7 license
"Microsoft may be one of the only remaining mobile operating-system providers that charges handset makers a licensing fee, but in exchange vendors get at least one important benefit: protection from intellectual property worries.
That could be one reason that Samsung, HTC and LG are willing to pay to use Windows Phone 7, but it doesn't appear to be enough to convince other former Windows Mobile users, like Motorola, to commit to the operating system."
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188964/Patent_protection_key_to_Windows_Phone_7_license http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188964/Patent_protec...
- hga 16y agoExcept that's not necessarily true. Counter suits could result in a) fast track import bans through the US International Trade Commission (Motorola started such a suit against RIM in January; the Onion reference is apropos) and b) in theory injunctions to stop making/selling/etc. the phones. Of course, what was big for RIM (612.5 million US$) is Microsoft's cost of doing business in The Microsoft Way, but still, this sort of thing can get very nasty and can also absorb a lot of time of important people in the sued company.