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by kkowalczyk 5080 days ago
Propaganda is always easier if you fail to mention all the facts.

Like the fact that it was Motorola that used their patents to negotiate with Microsoft long before it was acquired by Google. Or the fact that Motorola did it only after Microsoft blackmailed Motorola, using your rhetoric, with their patent portfolio in order to destroy Android not by making better products but by patent bullying.

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It is ludicrous for one patent holder of the H.264 patent pool to demand patent royalty rates far beyond the license rate for the entire pool.

It was NEVER a negotiation.

Certainly good reason to hop onto a free standard.