Tuesday 5 July 2011

Wistron signs Microsoft patent agreement for Android gadgets

For most of the time that Android has been on the market people have thought of Android as free. Google doesn’t charge for the OS so the thought was all the maker needed to do was get the hardware and sell the device. Microsoft started pointing out a few months back that Android isn’t free, there are patent licensing fees that go along with it.


Naturally, Microsoft owns a number of those patents that need to be licensed. Some scoffed at the idea of licensing patents from Microsoft to

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