Summary: Samsung's phones that serve Microsoft's software patents agenda have also contact with Android now

Samsung is as much of a pariah as Novell not just because of the crime that's taking place inside (with actual convictions); Samsung also signed a patent deal with Microsoft, where terms of their agreement include the passing of royalties to Microsoft, for the use of Linux. We wrote about the subject on numerous occasions in recent weeks/days [1, 2, 3, 4].

Not only LiMo phones are affected, as LG's Android phones have already proven (LG signed a similar patent deal with Microsoft). Samsung too turns out out to have Android phones, which ought to be avoided (because of the manufacturer, not the operating system).

Samsung Mobile announced its second Android phone of the week, this time aimed at Sprint's 3G network. Now available for pre-order for a Nov. 1 shipment, the "Moment" is based on an 800MHz Samsung processor, and offers a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, plus GPS, says Samsung.

That makes two companies (LG and Samsung) that are part of Microsoft's Linux racket and also part of Android. Ideally, such companies should be shunned or even excluded for the precedence they set. Meanwhile it turns out that Motorola is defecting from LiMo to Android.

Motorola is so focused on Android that it has dropped its board seat on the LiMo Foundation, the mobile Linux group it helped found.

The vocation of LiMo is likely to be similar to that of LiPS (Linux Phone Standards). Android stole their thunder and the fact that they hire/appoint marketing people who attack Richard Stallman helps not at all. ⬆