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Re:Rust for Windows by DennisP on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:23PM (#25867050)
According to the zdnet article I posted in a sibling comment, they did contribute all their patents, which is about 60,000 of them. They gave up significant licensing revenue.
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Re:Rust for Windows by beagle3 on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:12AM (#25869552)
Did they?

Is there a breakdown somewhere of their patent licensing revenue from Linux licensees, and the legal expenses they have in enforcing it?

Did they give up Linux patent licenses from Android makers? They had billions coming in from Samsung and LG in the past but that was all under NDAs, we don’t know what patents were under discussion.

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Re:Rust for Windows by DennisP on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:54AM (#25871646)
I have no idea what their legal expenses were, but they explicitly said it covered all their patents. The link I posted mentions Android as something that would be covered.
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