You're not a patent troll if you invented the patents (for a 1st-party OS).
You're not a patent troll if you invented the patents (for a 1st-party OS).
(I'd also posit that this is a good thing for consumers because it is a force pushing back against vertical integration. In the long run, I think it'll turn out to be a bad thing for consumers that the market is moving from ARM supplying IP to dozens of manufacturers, to a handful of companies with like Apple and Samsung moving CPU design in-house within a vertically-integrated supply chain.)
I actually somewhat agree with Timothycquinn. Companies that make all of their money from suing people are, at the very least, suspicious.
Microsoft is a patent gorilla, but it's not a troll.
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2013/03/guest-editorial-throwin...
An NPE by definition produces nothing but patent enforcement actions.