noreply@blogger.com (Florian Mueller) / FOSS Patents
Microsoft rightly withdrew support for ACT | The App(le) Association (which it once created)why – Its getting lonely around Apple. No one loves the Hermit App Kingdom. Still worse, hardly anyone even wants to be associated with it anymore in industry policy contexts–because of its App Store monopoly. This also weakens Apples advocacy efforts around standard-essential patents (SEPs), despite the fact that the positions the …