B&N claim that Microsoft is asserting control over Android via (tangential) patents which, when you add Nokia, gives them control over the Number 1 & 2 smartphone OSes, plus Windows Mobile which is about 2/3rds of the global market.
So under this theory either Microsoft is right, and deserves payment for the vital IP it has over Android and therefore controls large segments of the market, or Microsoft is wrong, and has no ownership and control but in that case deserves no money.
>B&N claim that Microsoft is asserting control over Android via (tangential) patents which, when you add Nokia, gives them control over the Number 1 & 2 smartphone OSes, plus Windows Mobile which is about 2/3rds of the global market.
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Apple asserting it's patents against HTC, Samsung and Motorola will give them control over 75% of the US market, so it's now an anti-trust concern? I think that argument is a stretch.
So under this theory either Microsoft is right, and deserves payment for the vital IP it has over Android and therefore controls large segments of the market, or Microsoft is wrong, and has no ownership and control but in that case deserves no money.