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fpgeek on Dec 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Pat...

AFAIK, Apple's most prominent cross-licensees are Microsoft and Nokia. If you're right, this looks like part of a pre-emptive strike against WP7. That is at least a bit surprising because the previous indications had been that Apple was fine with a iOS / Windows Phone duopoly in mobile.

jsnell on Dec 10, 2011 [–]

Note that a few months back Microsoft and Nokia sold a very significant amount of patents (reportedly 2000) to a patent troll company.

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