Microsoft 'has shot itself in the foot' with Nokia acquisition, says Linux International director

Sooraj Shah
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Jon 'Maddog' Hall claims acquisition is like Microsoft buying Dell 30 years ago

Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-pr...

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