Microsoft requires royalties for the Android-smartphone Samsung

Microsoft has insisted that Samsung should pay $ 15 for each smartphone operating system, Android, because it uses several patents owned by Microsoft. Earlier, HTC had already agreed to pay royalties for the use of Microsoft operating system Android. Sounds pretty strange, because the operating system Android is developed and provisionally free of charge by Google, from which no payments are not required. The reason is that Microsoft believed that all operating systems based on Linux affect any intellectual property rights of the corporation and Android - is one such operatsionok. Judging by the fact that HTC have agreed to pay royalties, any patents Linux still hurts and it is at this Microsoft and was able to play. To Google also claims can not be. This company has been developing an operating system, which de jure is provided free of charge manufacturers. But manufacturers of smartphones by using this free lecture operating profit, and hence have to pay royalties on patents it used to belong to other companies. It is for this reason, HTC and Microsoft have agreed to pay $ 5 for every sold Android-smartphone. To find out more about why the Samsung requires a large payment - should go into detail not only the patents that are used, but also in contracts concluded between the companies earlier. It is already known that the principal objections from Samsung is not available, however, the company intends to negotiate in order to achieve a reduction in the size of royalty up to $ 10 for a smartphone.