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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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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.
>>>> |
>>>> | 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:
>>>> |
>>>> | 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
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>>>> 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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>>> Without Linux distro Android, there is no micoshaft.
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>> I don't understand...
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> <sniff!>
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> This could take a while to explain.
>
> But let me give you the shortened version.
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> Without Linux, micoshaft won't get its $285 million and so it
> would bankrupted itself because all the other revenue sources
> exceed costs.
Yeah, got that right after I had pressed send. Thanks.
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