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The Microsoft bully is back
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| Well, color me surprised that the tyrant known as Microsoft has taken to doing everything it
| can to chip away at the competition â no matter what the cost, what the stakes, or what the
| perception of the public at large. Hereâs the deal: Back in April, Microsoft struck a deal
| with Samsung wherein Samsung would pay the software giant an undisclosed sum for every
| Samsung handset sold â get this â powered by the Android OS. Thatâs right, MS made itâs
| usual claims that Android (along with every company on the planet â regardless of what
| they produce) infringed upon patents held by Microsoft. Would they disclose the said
| infringed patents? Of course not. After all, itâs been Microsoftâs modus operandi for
| decades to obfuscate the real truth for fear of looking like a spoiled baby taking
| its toys and going home.
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| So there the public was (the public that cared about Samsung and Android) wondering
| what the sum and the patents were. Well, we now know that Samsung is to pay a
| whopping $15.00 per Android-based handset sold. Letâs do that math:
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| Samsung sold over 19 million Android-based handsets in the second quarter of 2011.
| At 15 smackers a pop, that equals $285 Million Dollars.
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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/the-microsoft-bully-is-back/2693
Windows and Office revenues are falling. Microsoft was caught cooking the books
while I was away from COLA (Information Week exposed this).
Microsoft does the last thing is can do. So did SCO.
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