ZTE плаща на Microsoft по 15-20 паунда за телефон с Windows Phone

Kosta, ти се ограмоти бе бате! Прочети жалбата на Barnes & Noble за исковете около Nook. виж и официалните изявления на Google, като това например : “This is the same tactic we’ve seen time and again from Microsoft. Failing to succeed in the smartphone market, they are resorting to legal measures to extort profit from others’ achievements and hinder the pace of innovation. We remain focused on building new technology and supporting Android partners.” Ето и мнения по въпроса: "So in other words, Microsoft is creating a “patent licensing” scheme to coerce Android manufacturers to pay them money, or otherwise they’ll drag them to Court for a few expensive years." But when you start going around licensing “your competitor’s products” because you have some really vague and old “patent”, that’s when it becomes really absurd. Yes, I know that the law basically allows for that, and that the Patent Office has been accepting increasingly more useless and more vague patents, but it’s one thing to be allowed to abuse your competitors like that, and it’s quite another to actually do it. Microsoft has been signing deals with Android manufacturers left and right, and they’ve done so in a very patent trollish way. They’ve first gone after smaller and weaker players, asking them to pay “reasonable” amounts, instead of taking them to Court. Then, once they had a big enough list, they started going after bigger companies, like Samsung and Acer. So when they go to them and show them the list of companies already accepting to pay the licensing fees for “patents”, they use it as sort of “proof” that Android is actually infringing on them. I mean “why else would those companies agree to pay, right”? It can’t possibly be because they’d rather pay a small fee (or a mafioso protection tax if you will), than go to Court with Microsoft, can it? Not to mention that even if the other companies don’t think the patents make much sense, the fear of actually fighting Microsoft in Court for years, will start creeping in as well. So is Microsoft getting paid here because of their awesome technology? Or is it just because they’re abusing the patent system to form a protection racket? “A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a criminal group or individual coerces a victim (usually a business) to pay money, supposedly for protection services against violence or property damage.”