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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
Untrue, I haven't touched the argument of the original post in this thread
It does not. Hardware manufacturers utilizing it have found that significant parts of it are owned by MS and that they have to pay to use it on their hardware. Other companies may own other parts of it too.
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Significant parts are not owned by Microsoft they have so many patents that even if a company is not infringing fighting over those will cost most small manufacturers a lot more than actually paying the licensing fees. Its simply put a shakedown something like the mob does.
Google vs Oracle has shown that most of Oracles claims have been hot air and the judge has struck away 95% of the patents claims by Oracle. It is the same with Microsoft that's the reason it has not gone after Google as it knows that once it does it will have to come out and say which patent Android/Linux is infringing and it will be unable to shake down smaller companies/OEMS with its threat of so many patents.