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shmerl on Jan 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

May be instead of investing they could stop shaking down Android manufacturers with patent trolling? That would be way more useful.

DrStalker on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

Their goal is to help themselves, not to help the greater phone-using community.

shmerl on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

Except they don't hesitate used crooked means for their goal.

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