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Microsoft Already Killed Nokia, Don't Let It Kill Android Players Too



Summary: Microsoft's strategy against Android mirrors the company's evil strategy that derailed MeeGo and Nokia

THERE remains a small crowd in the Free software world that is easily fooled by Microsoft's claims that it's warming up to Free software (though Microsoft won't use the "F" word, it just wants to kill Freedom). It's a harmful façade which facilitates infiltration and today we are going to remind readers of what Microsoft is really up to. It's a moles strategy.



"Patent extortion is not "pro-competitive", it is anti-competitive, but that's just what happens when Microsoft lobbyists speak out."Microsoft's attack on Android through Cyanogen is easy for all to see. Cyanogen hates freedom; it hardly makes any pretenses about it. It's not about choice, it's not about privacy, and it is definitely not about freedom. It's likely to become all about Microsoft. But not only Cyanogen is part of this subversive strategy. Samsung too seems to have been pressured into it. Florian Müller, who was paid by Microsoft (specifically the patent exotortion part of the company), wrote this ludicrous thing the other day: "Congratulations to @MicrosoftIP and @Samsung on settling their Android patent royalty dispute. This is good news bc it's pro-competitive."

Patent extortion is not "pro-competitive", it is anti-competitive, but that's just what happens when Microsoft lobbyists speak out. Well, perhaps that's Microsoft's money talking. Müller openly admitted to me last month that Microsoft had paid him more than once.

Well, the upcoming S series (Galaxy) is not infested with Microsoft apps based on reports we have posted in recent days in our daily links. Perhaps this is only the "embrace" stage, not yet the "extend". Microsoft's criminal track record and series of dead products (including Windows Mobile) ought to serve as a warning here. Nokia is pretty much dead to the bone and almost exactly one year ago Motley Fool (Microsoft-affiliated) published some ugly revisionism about it, flattering Microsoft and hailing it as some kind of rescuer rather than a killer/assassin of Nokia, which had only begun seriously adopting Linux, quickly becoming one of the top contributors to Linux.

What Microsoft did to Nokia was an utter failure, but not according to a Microsoft spinner who wrote:

Nokia's 2011 decision to collaborate with Microsoft by swapping out Symbian with Windows Phone was a good one, but by the time it was made, the sun was already setting.


This is completely untrue as a lot of evidence suggests. Nokia had released devices with MeeGo and they did quite well despite the fact that Microsoft quickly buried them. Windows was always a dud and people did not want another Windows/Office on their phone. This whole idea was rejected by the market, whereas Android as an option for Nokia would have worked quite well (many apps, virtually no security issues, low cost). Motley Fool, which is associated with MSN (Microsoft), did at least conclude correctly:

So no, these latest results aren't quite the final chapter for Microsoft/Nokia phones...but that unit's best days are clearly far behind it, and it doesn't look like it has much of a future to speak of.


Don't let the Android leaders (like Samsung) become another Nokia. There is already a lot of distortion of history, exploiting people's short memory span. We are being assaulted by media ownership and control, as exercised by Bill Gates under disguise of 'charity' in order for him to hoard more money while the media keeps people dumb about it (thinking he is giving money). Vis-a-vis Gates, Microsoft executives are lobbying China to adopt Microsoft's back doors that the NSA uses for espionage purposes (with Microsoft's help). As China bans Microsoft software (rightly so for security reasons) Bill Gates reportedly goes lobbying China's technology minister. China has by far the biggest mobile market. How insidious an opportunist Gates has become. How many companies does he need to kill before the world wakes up and takes defensive/reactionary steps?

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