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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by Maakuth on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:51AM (#11769383)
> What was the point of this whole exercise? A convoluted way of getting Nokia's masses of IP rights for mobile? Why not just leave Nokia to keep pushing WP?

Nokia only sold their mobile phone arm and licensed the IP. This doesn't seem like the cheapest way to get those licenses.

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by anjc on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:38AM (#11769637)
As far as I'm aware they were giving exclusive licensing rights to their IP to Microsoft in perpetuity. But yeah, it doesn't seem cheap...
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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by Maakuth on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:27AM (#11769976)
That is not correct. All the phone vendors need licenses to some Nokia IP as they own much of the core patents needed for GSM/UMTS/LTE radio implementations. They've licensed them to Microsoft among others. I guess MS got all the Nokia phone software copyrights to themselves, but I don't think Symbian and S40 source are worth very much at the moment.
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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by Nokinside on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:01AM (#11770258)
>I guess MS got all the Nokia phone software copyrights to themselves

This is incorrect. MS only bought non-exclusive, 10-year license for Nokia’s patent portfolio. Nokia has all the IP.

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