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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by ninv on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:28AM (#11769577)
What was the point of this whole exercise?

Patents.

Microsoft make more money from the Android than Google ...

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by pavlov on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:30AM (#11769589)
But Nokia kept the patents, Microsoft only licensed them for a period of time...
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