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ES: Microsoft Extorsión de Android Obtiene Etiquetas de Precio

Usando las patentes de software, Microsoft convierte a Linux en su propia fuente de ingresos, mientras que también por lo que es más caro.

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Resumen: El impuesto sobre €«lucha contra el 'Techrights Linux de Microsoft es llamar la atención mucho más este viernes

"BOICOT NOVELL" se trató de evitar los impuestos de Microsoft sobre GNU/Linux. Más gente está comenzando a despertarnos y darse cuenta que nuestra causa estuvo en lo correcto todo el tiempo, como varias distribuciones de GNU/Linux que pagarón a Microsoft por este "privilegio" simplemente se extinguieron (el precio de Xandros fue de $ 50 por las patentes de Microsoft[http://techrights.org/2009/06/15/xandros-patent-protection-sale/]). Nuestro objetivo fué garantizar que las personas/empresas no se conviertan en dependientes de las distribuciones que pagaban impuestos a Microsoft, ya que sólo serviría al objetivo de Microsoft de hacer de GNU/Linux de su fuente de ingresos propios. SuSE, TurboLinux, y Linspire también formaron parte de este problema y todas aquellas empresas que pasaron al inodoro de la historia. Hay más empresas tal[http://techrights.org/company-blacklist/], sino que venden hardware, no puramente software.



Todo el mundo parece haber "descubierto" que "HTC sólo paga $ 5 por Microsoft Android Phone[http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-android-phone-2011-5]" y ya hay mucha cobertura al respecto[http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/27/ms_royalty_deal_htc_android/]. Citando The Register:

Compra un teléfono inteligente HTC y $ 5 de lo que usted pagó va a Microsoft - incluso si usted acaba de comprar un dispositivo Android.

Así lo afirma el analista de Citi Walter Pritchard en una nota enviada hoy a los inversores, según Business Insider.

Microsoft anunció el acuerdo de pago de regalías - el resultado de un acuerdo legal - el año pasado, pero la cantidad que el gigante del software recibió no se hizo público. MS ha alegado Android infringe su propiedad intelectual, y tiene otros fabricantes de smartphones en su mira.

Pritchard estima Microsoft está llevando a cabo otros fabricantes de teléfonos Android de una regalía de $ 7,50 hasta 12,50 por dispositivo. HTC pagó relativamente poco al resolver las reclamaciones de Microsoft fuera de los tribunales.

[...]

Microsoft no puede ser demasiado fuerte. No puede darse el lujo de molestar demasiado a los fabricantes que también están vendiendo teléfonos basados en su sistema operativo Windows Phone - lo podrían dejar de hacer, en un arranque de genio. O pueden llegar a recibir menos regalías por un mayor compromiso con WinPho - algo que Microsoft necesita mucho más que incluso unos pocos cientos de millones de dólares en pagos de regalías.


Saumsung, LG, Kyocera Mita y también pagan a Microsoft por Android. Es posible que haya más empresas como ellas, aunque no tan prominentes. Frente a un precio[http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/05/27/htc-pays-microsoft-5-for-each-android-phone-it-sells/], la gente se sorprenda al respecto a pesar de que nuestro sitio ha puesto de relieve esta cuestión desde 2007, cuando Samsung firmó el primer acuerdo de estos y con el fin de disuadir a acuerdos similares se llamó a un boicot. La conclusión es, tenemos un problema aquí, pero no es un problema nuevo. Incluso encontramos una propagandista anti-Linux había escrito: "Esto es sólo un fraude. A mi me gusta teléfonos HTC con su interfaz Sense, pero tengo un Galaxy S II en orden y no voy a comprar un teléfono HTC otra vez mientras que cedan a los chantajes de Microsoft. "

Según otra noticia de hoy[http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/05/27/android-developers-could-be-next-target-for-patent-firm-lodsys/], Lodsys quiere ir después tras los desarrolladores de Android[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/patent_holding_firm_lodsys_goes_after_android_developer_for_use_of_in_app_payments.php]. "La compañía explotadora de Patentes Lodsys causó revuelo hace poco, cuando exigió el dinero de los desarrolladores de IOS utilizando los pagos en aplicación", dice este informe, "sobre lo que ella posee una patente. Ahora parece que los desarrolladores de Android podría estar en la línea de un correo electrónico de la empresa exigiendo lo mismo.

"La Comunidad Android ha detectado un desarrollador que está afirmando haber recibido una solicitud de pago en relación con la integración de pagos en aplicación en una aplicación para Android. De ser cierto, podría suscitar otro nido de avispas de la ira en la comunidad de desarrolladores. "

"Saumsung, LG, Kyocera Mita y también pagan a Microsoft por Android."Esto no es realmente nuevas noticias[http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/cc9e7843da5c34b6/6a9241ce21c75568?pli=1] y se aludió a ello antes. Apple, a diferencia de Google, es un agresor de patentes, por lo que no es la misma situación de Android y hypeOS de Apple. Curiosamente, Nokia aliado de Microsoft también está dando un mal rato a Apple[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/nokia-wins-partial-review-of-itc-patent-case-against-apple-1-.html]. €¿Cuánto tiempo antes de que Microsoft utilize a Nokia para demandar a los distribuidores Android también? Nokia ha dado pistas al respecto. la estrategia de Microsoft es agravar Linux desde todas las direcciones posibles[http://techrights.org/2009/03/09/timeline-microsoft-patents/]. Es un abierto chantaje [1[http://techrights.org/2007/06/08/shuttleworth-on-racketeering/], 2[http://techrights.org/2009/07/17/racketeering-melco-microsoft/], 3[http://techrights.org/2009/12/29/microsoft-extortion-software-patents/], 4[http://techrights.org/2009/07/24/red-hat-on-microsoft-two-face/], 5[http://techrights.org/2009/09/08/staples-employees-anti-linux/], 6[http://techrights.org/2009/07/01/patent-racketeering-myhrvold/], 7[http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/open-for-patents/]], por lo que los reguladores deben intervenir inmediatamente.

"Eso es extorsión y deberíamos llamarlo por lo que es. Decir, como lo hizo Ballmer, de que hay un balancede responsabilidad no divulgada , eso es sólo extorsión y debemos negarnos a dejarse arrastrar a ese juego."

-Mark Shuttleworth

Translation produced by Eduardo Landaveri, the esteemed administrator of the Spanish portal of Techrights.

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