I wish Microsoft would be castigated for their aggressive use of mostly BS patents as well. Apple wins a one time only $1 billion payment, but Microsoft is getting to the point where they might get $1 billion from the companies using Android every 2 years or even every year if Android keeps getting even more successful. Is that right? Would it seem right if Microsoft did this to companies using Linux? They are even going after companies using ChromeOS.
Why isn't there a bigger outrage towards them? Is it because they take the money in small bites compared to Apple? Is that how they get under the radar? They are making Android cost almost as much as their full phone OS license, thanks to a bunch of patents. That's not right.
I hereby castigate Microsoft. Are you happy? MS is evil, but they are broadly happy to be a parasite. They aren't trying to keep their competitor's products out of the market entirely. Other companies, like Nokia, are behaving similarly. And it's hurtful and wrong.
But sorry, it's objectively not as hurtful, nor wrong, as what Apple is doing right now with their shotgun suits, refusal to license at reasonable cost, and demands for import bans.
The fact that Apple is at the top of a very long list of evil doers doesn't excuse them.
So obviously that list will include Google right ?
Because Google/Motorola was refusing to license at reasonable cost H.264 patents to Microsoft despite them being required under FRAND obligations to do so.
Sigh, why must we go in circles on this? Yes, they're on that list too. There's plenty of bad faith to go around. But yet I still see X-Boxes in the stores. Again, that's parasitism -- Motorola/Google want a cut of the revenue, they aren't trying to kill the product. Parasites have no interest in killing their hosts. Apple wants Samsung (and Android) dead. That is worse.
Their license strategy is pretty different from Apple though. They go to OEMs and shake them down for a small licensing deal clouded in other deals and agreements, and also promises to make or keep making Windows Phones etc. Their goal is never court cases except in cases like BN (which they quickly settled later). The strategy is to build up precedents and take small amounts instead of full blown lawsuits requesting $30/device. Looks like the deals are okay with the OEMs, that's why there haven't been high profile lawsuits except with B&N.
Do you seriously think Apple will go away with the one billion payment? Aren't they trying for injunctions on imports etc. along with ongoing licesing fees?
Just today they added Galaxy S3 and Note etc. to a lawsuit. And that's just with Samsung. There are pending lawsuits against Motorola and HTC.
