Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Says Android Isn't Free

[HappyBB]

Another example of corporate greediness!

 

[spigias]

[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]I am completely opposed to this tactic by Ballmer. That being said, to call him an idiot is a demonstration of ignorance. Steve Ballmer knew Bill Gates and Paul Allen from when they were all at Harvard together. Bill and Paul left to start Microsoft, whereas Ballmer stayed and finished his disgree in Mathematics and Economics. He was brought on a couple of years later as a business manager (he was something like the 24th employee hired by Bill). In the year that Microsoft was incorportated, Steve Ballmer was give an 8% share in the company. Since then he has headed several divisions (including OS development) and, in 2000, became the CEO. Suffice it to say that he has been contributed significantly to the success of Microsoft, and if he ever decided to leave, companies all over the world would be throwing bags of money at him to entire him to be their CEO.[/citation]

yes i agree he is not an idiot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU
he is a dance monkey

 

[bhaberle]

[citation][nom]ssddx[/nom]MS is using such patents as an incentive to "go with us and not them." The reason MS doesnt outright try to challenge google is... they probably have the same amount of lawyers... it would be ugly and drawn out.How hilarious would it be when the win7-phone comes out....if google has a patent or two to stick up MS's ...[/citation]
I couldn't say it better myself.

 

[wizardprang]

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." -- Bill Gates, 1991

Yes, it's been said before... but it says it all.

 

[back_by_demand]

MS is using such patents as an incentive to "go with us and not them." The reason MS doesnt outright try to challenge google is... they probably have the same amount of lawyers... it would be ugly and drawn out.How hilarious would it be when the win7-phone comes out....if google has a patent or two to stick up MS's ...

Or maybe it is because Google has paid to license the MS patents
...
Research much?

 

[ajcroteau]

Not free... hmm... don't recall having to pay for Android 2.2 Froyo update on my incredible... interesting...

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]ajcroteau[/nom]Not free... hmm... don't recall having to pay for Android 2.2 Froyo update on my incredible... interesting...[/citation]
Hmm, not free, dont recall having to pay for the copy of Windows preinstalled on any HP or Dell machine...

You don't pay for it, but someone else does

 

[HavoCnMe]

This might actually hurt them and android makers and boost iPhone sales again. Good one dipshit/Ballmer....I think i am going to put a patent on the human heart so every time someone is born i get money. Its my Microsoft Education at work.

 

[saurus]

I wonder if somewhere in the early Microsoft history they used freeware to create software then locked it down under proprietary licences with the threat of litigation if anyone reverse engineered it to reveal the source code?