> "Free" software isn't free, if it includes a Microsoft tax, anyway. You have to wonder how galling it is for Microsoft that even after they impose this "tax

> "Free" software isn't free, if it includes a Microsoft tax, anyway. You have to wonder how galling it is for Microsoft that even after they impose this "tax" manufacturers still prefer to make Android devices and still sell vastly more of them than WP7. Effectively it values WP7 at less than free which must be rather insulting. Edit: I think the fact MS is even trying this speaks volumes about how Microsoft misunderstands the market. Stuck in a 1990s mindset their assumption is that their problem competing with Android is that it is free while their OS costs money. They simply do not understand the difference between free and open source and assume the only difference between the two is a financial one. They fail to see the strategic value of Android being "open" to these manufacturers and don't get that it is far greater than anything they can ever impose on them via patent trolling.