HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone

jcarr writes "According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, HTC is paying Microsoft $5 for each Android phone it makes. This may be related to a report from last year: MS and HTC sign patent deal. So now we can't even write a free OS?"

More than Windows Phone

[leromarinvit]

In related news, they are making more on Android sales than on Windows Phone 7. [asymco.com]

Re:More than Windows Phone

[VortexCortex]

Imagine if they just started selling Linux directly...

So we're kicking puppies now

[MrKaos]

Don't forget beating up on microsoft is like kicking a puppy. Open Source software has won in the server space and so criticising microsoft is like beating up a puppy. Poor little harmless microsoft wouldn't hurt mean old open source software. Everyone who has a copy of linux should pay microsoft something for not using a microsoft operating system. microsoft have never done anything bad in the past and anyone who says so is just making up stories to make microsoft look bad.

We should look into making a real microsoft tax that people pay to make sure we get the benefit of microsoft in our lives, everywhere. After all microsoft invented logic and the concept of on or off being a 1 or a 0 so go and pay microsoft 10cents for every light switch in your house because it's the right thing to do and because they *need* you money more than you do. Microsoft Everything for Everyone Forever

We don't need anything else because microsoft is like the standard on computers. Poor microsoft and those mean open source thieves who steal microsofts ideas by volunteering their time to writing freed software. If they had any morals they would pay microsoft to volunteer to write open source software because microsoft invented software and the idea of software so we should pay them.

Now get of their lawn, because only they can shit on it.

Re:So we now we can't even write...

[toriver]

according to Google Voice my girlfriend is my daughter.

Try again without that Kansas dialect.

Re:So we now we can't even write...

[Alien1024]

Or maybe Google detects you're in Alabama and makes an assumption.