Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android

Re:Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android by oldstrangers on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @05:55PM (#2731751)

"We are pleased that Wistron is taking advantage of our industrywide licensing program, established to help companies address Android's IP issues," Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez said in a press release.

That is the most infuriatingly worded press release ever. Might as well just say that you're very pleased Wistron agreed to let you bend them over the counter to address Microsoft's inability to compete issue.

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Re:Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android by cageface on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @08:53PM (#2732158)

The smugness just oozes through the page. These kinds of chickenshit tactics are the desperate moves of a stagnant company. The happiest development of my career has been watching the industry emerge from under the shadow of the software mafiosos at Redmond. If the U.S. patent system isn't reformed soon the baton of innovation will pass to other countries that don't enable these extortion schemes.

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Re:Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android by 1010011010 on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @05:57PM (#2731758)

"established to help companies address Android's IP issues" ... haha

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