Flush with success, Microsoft hopes Samsung would be its next Android patent bounty

Wistron? Check . HTC? Double-check . Velocity Micro? Been there . Itronix? Done that . Microsoft has found lots of corporate entities willing to be wooed with its patent-waving ways, and the corporate hopes the following notch on its bedpost would be a gigantic one: Samsung. Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is after a $15 bounty per Android handset sold, which, if already in place, would have put Sammy $45 million within the hole because of the Galaxy S II’s successes . Why would Samsung comply with such terms? It’s possible Microsoft is requiring that this agreement be installed place for corporations that like to to supply Windows 8 tablets. Or, maybe it’s simply because everybody else is playing along. Nobody likes a follower, Samsung, nobody.

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