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Microsoft's Elop Confirmed as Trojan Horse Inside Nokia, Receives Another Massive Bonus From Microsoft While Microsoft (PRISM) Grabs EU Data

Finland, not Ukraine: A coup strategy that even the CIA would be jealous of

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Summary: The thuggish Microsoft has successfully destroyed Nokia, rendering its data 'property' of Microsoft (and hence the NSA) and its patents a weapon for proxies against Linux/Android

THE former Finnish giant Nokia shows that lessons have not been learned since Novell. Companies are still committing suicide because they don't quite grasp the criminality of Microsoft, including the Satya-'led' Microsoft (he is not really in charge and he continues the Ballmer/Gates patent racketeering policies). Having seen the mole move away (after handing control over to Microsoft), Nokia gets a new CEO. But Nokia doesn't matter anymore; it's effectively dead and this was the goal of Elop. The orphaned Nokia patents will continue to be funneled to patent trolls, with guidance from Microsoft, as before (e.g. MOSAID). It's all about attacking Android and Linux.



According to Nokia expert Ahonen, "Nokia smartphone sales are down to 7.1 million units in Q1. That is down 13% from Q4 and Nokia's prelimary market share is now 2.5%."

"The orphaned Nokia patents will continue to be funneled to patent trolls, with guidance from Microsoft, as before (e.g. MOSAID)."Microsoft did not need to aspire for great success or high market share for Nokia. That would only have made Nokia more expensive to completely take over. By destroying Nokia Microsoft can ensure that the huge stockpile of patents gets passed to a lot of trolls, harming Android. This is how Microsoft works and that's the type of thinking; it's all about destruction, not creation.

A borderline troll, Andrew Orlowski, says that "there's one thing worse than a Microsoft cloud accessed mostly by iOS and Android consumer devices, it's a Microsoft cloud that consumers don't want to use at all. Perhaps a viable Android is the best acquisition Microsoft could have made?"

Surveillance through a massively-sabotaged Android fork is what Microsoft sought to do with Nokia, as we argued months ago. It's not at all positive for Android and Google should try to stop this.

It is already apparent that Stephen Elop was a Trojan horse, no matter how much he still tries to deny it. Money talks and "Stephen Elop lands at Microsoft with $33m golden parachute," which says a lot really. As Ahonen put it the other day:

As everybody knows Windows Phone only has 3% market share in smartphones (with Google's Android over 80% and Apple's iOS at 15%). And Microsoft is no 'newcomer' to smartphones it has made software for smartphones far longer than Apple's iPhone or Google's Android have even existed. Yes, Microsoft has been in mobile for a dozen years already. At its peak Microsoft's Windows commanded 12% market share as the clear number 2 in the industry (behind Nokia's Symbian). From day 1, Microsoft had dreamed of having Nokia become a Windows partner, which Nokia resisted for essentially a decade until the ex-Microsoft exec Stephen Elop came to run Nokia as CEO.


That was a Trojan horse strategy. Microsoft should never have been allowed to infiltrate Nokia, but eventually the company's plot was "successful". It wasn't about helping Nokia. Elop was supposed to destroy Nokia. His goal was to cheapen Nokia, not help the company, leaving Nokia's treasure of patents to trolls whom Microsoft strategically chooses after it scooped up the company for a ridiculously low price, along with customer data (from the EU, hence joining it into NSA PRISM, just like Skype from Europe). It's truly a shame that the European Union could not ban data retention of this kind and could not prevent passage of all this data (and active communications/interception tools) to the #1 PRISM facilitator; instead, the European Union pursues silly projects which do more harm than good.

What a disaster this is! Always remember who destroyed Nokia. Contrary to appalling revisionism (common in US corporate media), Nokia was not a victim of itself.

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