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Story: Will Microsoft make Windows free to defeat Android?Total Replies: 3
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BernardSwiss

Jan 07, 2014
4:42 AM EST 		It might even be an anti-trust issue, if Microsoft wasn't already dinging Android over bogus Microsoft patents (apparently for more than they charge for their own mobile OS's).

But to be extorting those bogus "licensing" fees from OEMs over Android, while making Windows Phone available for $free would probably be too blatant a scam, even for the American DOJ.

(Of course, MS could always convert those "patent licenses" to $free as well... but somehow, I just don't see that happening...)
tuxchick

Jan 07, 2014
7:48 PM EST 		Good points, Bernard. They are in a pretty pickle of their own making. They've been coasting on stale, inferior technology for decades, and their only real innovation is protection rackets.
Ridcully

Jan 07, 2014
10:02 PM EST 		Tuxchick, I'd like to frame your post above. What an elegant and succinct summation of Microsoft's development and ethics.
Bob_Robertson

Jan 08, 2014
9:00 AM EST 		"They've been coasting on stale, inferior technology for decades, and their only real innovation is protection rackets."

All empires fall.

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