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Because Microsoft is just as eager as Oracle to extract whatever money they can through patents that they hold.
by jplayer01 8y ago
Because Microsoft is just as eager as Oracle to extract whatever money they can through patents that they hold.
- pron 8y ago* https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft-android-patent-income/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft... * https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475440/android/microsoft-gets--2-billion-a-year-in-android-patent-fees--really-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475440/android/micros...
- shawnz 8y agoMicrosoft has issued a legally-binding promise to not assert .NET patents against standards-compliant .NET framework implementations. See: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/corefx/master/PATENTS.TXT https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/corefx/master/PATEN...
- jplayer01 8y agoOh, sorry. I guess I've woken up in a magical parallel universe where Microsoft didn't just spend the better part of the past decade extracting billions of dollars every year from Android phone manufacturers.