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So it's OK for them to threaten others, but not OK when others come after them.

Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Personally, I'd rather see Microsoft putting energy into endeavors like these than pish-posh the effort and encourage them to launch patent suits against competitors.

The way the game is set up now it encourages people to go after one another, even if they don't want to. Maybe Microsoft has decided that the best courses of action rank as follows:

  Go after no one under a new system.
  Go after everyone under the current system.
  Go after no one under the current system.

Currently only options 2 and 3 are available, but they would like to move to option number one and this is their first step in making that a reality.

I don't know that is what they are doing, just saying...

Considering how they are ripping off Android phone makers, I'd say this is wishful thinking.

   The way the game is set up now it encourages 
   people to go after one another

In what way are companies encouraged to do this? In what way was HTC a threat to their "intellectual property"? Was it a threat in the sense that they can't compete with Android in a free market?

Really, this is outstandingly hypocritical of them.

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