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HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone

Posted by timothy on from the they've-reached-step-3 dept.

jcarr writes "According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, HTC is paying Microsoft $5 for each Android phone it makes. This may be related to a report from last year: MS and HTC sign patent deal. So now we can't even write a free OS?"

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  1. Re:Software Patents. by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 0, Troll

    Writing FOSS that is actually innovative and not a carbon copy of what commercial software did 10 years ago and better would be an alternative.

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  2. Not if the US dollar free falls by cheekyboy · · Score: 1, Troll

    If the US$ falls to sad ass levels, $5 might be worth less than 1 resistor or 1 blank cdrw disk.

    In this case, the flat $5 fee might be bad today, but nothing in the future.

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