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  Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer
Time: 07:23 EST/12:23 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Andi Stabryla

A top Microsoft legal eagle has moaned that Android smartphones and the like are profiting from cash that his bosses have invested in research and development.

These devices have moved from having a rudimentary phone system to being a full-fledged computer, with a sophisticated, modern operating system. In doing that, they have really stood on the shoulder of companies like Microsoft who made all these billions of dollars in investments," Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel of Microsoft's intellectual property group, told the San Fran Chronicle.

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#1 By 2960 (72.209.197.132) at Monday, October 31, 2011 09:46:57 AM
So, no one is allowed to make competing products just because MS is in the business and has investments in it?

WTF is this guy talking about? This is not the Socialist Economy of Microsoft. Jeebus.

It's stupid crap like this that keeps Microsoft from being respected by the average computing public.



 

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