Microsoft, Apple in bed together

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Google's top lawyer rips Apple, Microsoft and Oracle

Google's top legal officer today posted a scathing indictment of
adversaries Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle for pursuing "bogus" patent
claims that may serve to drive up the costs of phones using Google's
Android mobile operating system.

Google Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond paints
a picture of rivals envious of Android's success, noting that more than
550,000 Android devices are activated daily.

"But Android's success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized
campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and other companies,
waged through bogus patents," Drummond writes in a post under the heading
"When patents attack Android."
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Drummond begins his post, noting what strange bedfellows Apple and
Microsoft make.

"I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades. Microsoft and
Apple have always been at each other's throats, so when they get into bed
together you have to start wondering what's going on," Drummond writes.

He sees their banding together to acquire the Nortel patents as a direct
assault on Android, which has quickly surpassed both the iPhone and
devices running the Windows Phone and the previous Windows Mobile as the
top selling smartphone operating system in the United States. He goes on
to note that smartphones might face up to 250,000 "largely questionable"
patent claims, which serve as a "tax" on the devices.

"Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are
fighting through litigation," Drummond writes.
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http://tinyurl.com/3wc43m9

Too bad for Apple and Microsoft. Their patent extortion is not going to
work.

RonB
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