Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
Apr 3, 2011, 23 :02 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3317 reads)
(Other stories by Dr. Roy Schestowitz)
[ Thanks to Roy Schestowitz for this link. ]
"APPALLING. That?s what Microsoft appears to have given the world. First it put a tax on every computer sold, removing people?s ability to avoid this tax even if they want nothing to do with Microsoft. Now they want to force people to pay Microsoft a tax no matter which phone they buy. That?s right, and if it?s not Microsoft pulling those strings, then it?s the two co-founders of the company and their former CTO, who with funding from a Microsoft co-founder created the world?s largest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures. Watch how patent lawyer types try to white-wash the patent trolls? role in industry and cover the fact that Gates and his buddy Myhrvold are extorting RIM for its phones, just like HTC and Samsung (for Linux), allegedly after Myhrvold did his blackmail routines. Here is how patent lawyers put it (subscription required)."
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