Xandros celebrates Microsoft union with patents
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| Under the typical five year ActiveSync licensing deal Microsoft charges
| $100,000 or the first year's royalties - depending on which is higher - with
| a per unit royalty charged after that.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/15/xandros_microsoft_license/
Microsoft uses the Xandros deal as a proxy to escape "antitrust" scrutiny and
eliminate Scalix (or at least its cost advantage). It did the same with Citrix
to hurt Xen for Linux, based on the announcement (reading between the lines).
The XenSource partnership they had was apparently not enough.
This is market abuse. Microsoft is throwing away a lot of money to buy its
competition through partners and sockpuppets. Argghhh!!
Related:
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| Conlin used a variety of computer-generated illustrations, including one that
| showed 15 icons, each representing what she said was an illegal action taken
| by Microsoft in pursuit of its bid to become and remain a monopoly. The icons
| had titles like “exclusionary contract,” “technical sabotage,”
| “buying out the competition,” “espionage,” and “deception and
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| misinformation.”
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006120516224886
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