Microsoft's Largest Patent Troll, Operating Through Shell Entities, Broadens Extortion Campaign in Eastern Texas | Linux Today

Microsoft’s Largest Patent Troll, Operating Through Shell Entities, Broadens Extortion Campaign in Eastern Texas

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Roy Schestowitz
Oct 29, 2018

Microsoft insists there’s a “truce” but it forbade its workers from speaking about it and patent assertion activities (extortion and litigation) carry on unabated through notorious Microsoft proxies, including one run by a close friend of Bill Gates – all this while Microsoft is selling so-called protection from them

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Roy Schestowitz

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