The list of companies from which Microsoft receives money for the licensing of intellectual property related to the Android operating system boasts two new companies. From now on, in fact, Acer and View Sonic also pay a "tax" for every solution Android produced and marketed.
The products included in these agreements include smart phones and tablet equipped with the proprietary operating system of Google Chrome and the baby-OS.
"We are flattered that our program by taking advantage of Acer sharing of intellectual property created to help companies that use the Android operating system and exploit it as related patents," these words of Horace Gutierrez, vice president of IP and Licensing at Microsoft.
Microsoft seems so determined to keep battling on the front of the Android licensing, operation from which, according to some reports, the Redmond Company would take more profit than revenue derived from license sales of its Windows Mobile OS phones.
The list of companies that have agreed to pay Microsoft for use of patents related to Linux kernel to now also include General Dynamics, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, and Weston. Microsoft has also tried to impose even Samsung payment for Android devices, as well as a cause is still under way involving Motorola and Barnes & Noble. For its part, Google, accusing the actual owner of the operating system Microsoft has joined with Apple in the fight against Android, guilty of being the mobile operating system with the highest prevalence rates.
Posted by: Wasim Javed
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