This is not a past mistake, racketeering against Linux and Android using their patents is still ongoing today.

Long enough to earn trust.

I still don't trust Sony after the RootKit fiasco, and it might be another decade before I do. Or Sprint after the IQ agent keylogger.

There are simply too many other companies with similar products to ms, sony or sprint that have no public dishonesty on their record. I can just use someone else's product until they have been good corporate citizens long enough that I have forgotten.

Have they ever paid for their past mistakes?