@wackoae
Now that WebOS is open sourced, each vendor making a handset will have to pay the same MS Tax anyway. HP probably already has some cross-licensing going with MS, but HTC/Samsung/Motorola etc??? Back to square one. The big patent everyone gets nailed on is FAT32, which ended up being adopted as the standard FS of all the SD cards. Whether it is Android, or WebOS, I don't think it'll make a difference for how much royalties get paid to Microsoft. I could be wrong though, that isn't my field of expertise. I suppose one way out is to not have expandable storage like what Apple did.
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