Summary: Microsoft uses Linux-powered phones not just to make income (patent tax) but also to spread Microsoft propaganda, which includes Linux insults

REDMOND-BASED PARASITE MICROSOFT is losing its ability to compete online and to compete in mobile, including tablets. What does it do? It extorts Linux, which increasingly leads the way in these two strategic areas. Here is another Samsung/Android phone for Microsoft to make money from owing to patent extortion (patents never named) and another HTC EVO 4G clone will receive similar treatment. It's just a Verizon Android rumuor at this moment, just like the old rumour that Microsoft paid Verizon half a billion dollars to force all customers to use Bong [sic] 'search' [1, 2] -- a 'search' which is prefiltered to yield Linux-hostile results. Microsoft loves to spit in the well. Oh, well...

Now that Microsoft is shoving Bong [sic] into Android phones, Tim from OpenBytes responds as follows:

It comes as no surprise to me when we learn that Bing now has an Android app. Microsoft really wants you using its search decision engine and if that means putting it on an massively popular Android platform (which they are starting to make money from via “deals” with HTC et al) then so be it.

The author acquired an HTC phone just days before Microsoft declared that it had successfully extorted HTC and will therefore be paid by HTC for Linux, per unit. To Microsoft it's important to 'tax' mobile Linux because shipment volume there is far greater than on the desktop. The way it's done is akin to racketeering [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].

Let's remember this next time Microsoft says it "love" Open Source. Who doesn't "love" to extort and exploit things? Linux is working pretty well for Microsoft, as long as Microsoft uses invisible software patents to claim to be the owner of Linux. ⬆