Microsoft Increases Android Patent Licensing Reach

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft may not be winning in the mobile arena, but they're still making tons of money from those who are. Patent licensing agreements net the company billions each year from device makers like Samsung, Foxconn, and ZTE. Now, Microsoft has added another company to that list: Qisda Corp. They make a number of Android and Chrome-based devices under the Qisda brand and the BenQ brand, and now Microsoft will be making money off those, too.

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So, Microsoft is a social leech!

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The /. summary presents Microsoft as a "loser" that "steals" from those making money, and i feel a strange urge to make an analogy with social leeches and hard-working people, but 2 things stop me: 1) it's a bad analogy, because Microsoft contributes something (its patents - so others can use them and make money) 2) my "karma" is already bad, one day after signing up...