http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-and-microsoft-reach-550m-deal-over-aol-patents-23224231/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-and-microsoft-reach-550m-deal-over-aol-patents-23224231/#comment-204806 Pete Austin Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=224231#comment-204806 Great summary. MS ends up as a troll in the consumer space (where it loses money), and uses patents to defend against Linux in the business market. Meanwhile FB has bought a lot of insurance – now it can crush any smaller, specialised competitors. Both will see this as a big win.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-and-microsoft-reach-550m-deal-over-aol-patents-23224231/#comment-204619 Aaron_baker65 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=224231#comment-204619 Translation – microhard is failing in the mobile market so it’s going to patent troll while it steers its slow fat butt towards windows late and to pay for the Nokia allowance while it waits for Nokia to finish its Kamikaze run at Apple and Android takeover so it can buy Nokia and own its patents so it can patent troll even more and squash QT or use QT as closed source.

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