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Bribing Companies That Expose Microsoft Extortion, Preventing Them From Showing What It Really is That Microsoft Does (RICO Act Violation)

Barnes and Noble: From hero to zero; Legitimising Microsoft FUD rather than challenging it, eventually selling out

Barnes and Noble



Summary: The Barnes and Noble (B & N) saga continues following disclosure of a typically-NDA'd nastygram and a formal complaint to the government

There have been little concrete exhibits which show how much Microsoft profits from Android patent extortion. The figures may be negligible, but the goal of Microsoft is to discourage use of Android, not just to tax it. FUD has been a tool of choice. It's effective to a degree, but it has hardly stopped Android's explosive growth.



"Barnes & Noble was essentially passed a large bribe after it litigated against Microsoft's extortion of Android (reverse-SLAPP by Microsoft)."There is this new post which attempts to quantity the cost of extortion. "Microsoft has had trouble getting people to use its Windows Phone operating systems, however, it might make as much as $3.4 billion on Android phones," Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes.

This is based on conjectures and speculations. We oughtn't help legitimise those. Remember the FUD about royalties allegedly paid by HTC [1, 2].

One should generally avoid certain companies not for paying Microsoft for Linux but for legitimising the claim that Linux has a debt to Microsoft. It's a crucial point to grasp.

There is an interesting twist in the business of B & N, which we coincidentally wrote about earlier this week. "Shares of Barnes & Noble skyrocketed in early trading on Thursday after a report said Microsoft was offering $1 billion for the digital assets of the bookseller’s e-reader business." That is what the trend-setting media says. Recall that "Microsoft already owns about 17.6 percent of the Nook division, having paid $300 million last year. According to TechCrunch, the company would seek to take over the unit’s e-books and devices operations."

Barnes & Noble was essentially passed a large bribe after it litigated against Microsoft's extortion of Android (reverse-SLAPP by Microsoft). This was a threat to the perceived legitimacy of the extortion, so Microsoft paid up for the silence. Corruption indeed. Followed by coverup. There is not much for B & N to gain except money and in fact it continues to sell Android devices, not Windows. We showed it earlier in the week. Microsoft may already be extorting those devices through complicated-to-analyse extortion deals which target the manufacturer.

Swapnil Bhartiya, writing about AstroTurfing by Microsoft ("perception management"), has this to say: "The amount of resources Microsoft is investing in PR stunts - whether it be bogus patent signing deals with Android players (which could be about things like FAT partitions - B&N case already showed that all of Microsoft's accusations were bogus and bluff and that's why the company settled out side the court just before it moved forward and 'paid' B&N in the name of 'investment) or these ad campaigns. The amount of experience Microsoft is gaining in smear campaigns Microsoft may actually have a better career as a video ad company than a software maker."

Fortunately, the three Android tablets that my parents and I use are not part of the patent extortion blanket of Microsoft. Vote with your wallet and never buy anything at all from Barnes and Noble. it's the only way for your voice to count.

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