So why are companies going along with this? According to the experts, it’s because it’s cheaper to pay off Microsoft than to fight them. For what might be a nominal fee, Samsung and other companies avoid wasting years of time and money in court fighting them.
Patent lawsuits are all about money and control. Unless you’re Oracle trying to monetize Java at Google’s expense to the tune of a billion plus or Apple trying to kill off competition, companies can find it cheaper to pay off a patent attacker. After all, even Google would be happy to pay off Oracle... if Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, came down to a more reasonable 100-million or so.
In the end, the bottom line is that Microsoft is trying to get what money it can from Android and Linux vendors while trying to scare users off using the platform. Thanks to these patent deals and the endless mobile software patent lawsuit wars, we’ll all end up paying more for my smartphones and tablets. After all, no matter who pays whom, in the end we, the people, are the ones who really end up paying for all these pointless patent licensing agreements and litigation.
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Posté par Albert_ . En réponse au journal Android Microsoft et Samsung : un coup de gueule, inutile mais il soulage ;-). Évalué à 4.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsofts-samsung-android-patent-troll-win/9634
So why are companies going along with this? According to the experts, it’s because it’s cheaper to pay off Microsoft than to fight them. For what might be a nominal fee, Samsung and other companies avoid wasting years of time and money in court fighting them.
Patent lawsuits are all about money and control. Unless you’re Oracle trying to monetize Java at Google’s expense to the tune of a billion plus or Apple trying to kill off competition, companies can find it cheaper to pay off a patent attacker. After all, even Google would be happy to pay off Oracle... if Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, came down to a more reasonable 100-million or so.
In the end, the bottom line is that Microsoft is trying to get what money it can from Android and Linux vendors while trying to scare users off using the platform. Thanks to these patent deals and the endless mobile software patent lawsuit wars, we’ll all end up paying more for my smartphones and tablets. After all, no matter who pays whom, in the end we, the people, are the ones who really end up paying for all these pointless patent licensing agreements and litigation.