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Nokia had been a long-standing giant and a patents-rich company that was hijacked by Microsoft, just like Yahoo (see Microsoft Hijack of Yahoo).

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In the 21s century Nokia was lobbying for software patents in Europe. As Symbian declined Nokia turned to Linux and then it sued Apple with patents. After Apple had sued Android Nokia welcomed a Microsoft mole into its ranks and then the company collapsed rapidly, brought in more Microsoft moles (former colleagues of the CEO), all the Linux efforts were called off, staff fired accordingly, and Nokia's patents then passed to proxies such as MOSAID, with Microsoft's explicit intervention. It did not take long for this to harm Android, so Google filed antitrust complaints. Here are some posts sorted chronologically.

MOSAID

2023

On the World Wide Web, Facts About Microsoft (and Many Other Things) Are Being Replaced With Lies

2020

Video: How Microsoft Killed Nokia and Harmed an Entire Country

2018

The Patent 'Industry' Wants Incitations and Feuds, Not Innovation and Collaboration (Blackberry/Nokia lawsuit dropped)

The Patent 'Industry' Wants Incitations and Feuds, Not Innovation and Collaboration

Blackberry

'Nokification' in Hong Kong and China (PRC)

2017

Ericsson and Microsoft-Led Nokia Crush Companies That Make Phones With Linux, BlackBerry Becomes Litigation Firm

Qualcomm, BlackBerry and Nokia Are Being Reduced to Mere Patent Trolls Without Any Products, Only Patents

More Information Emerges About Provenance Asset Group LLC, Where Thousands of Nokia Patents Are Being Passed Through

Microsoft and Nokia's Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC

Patents Are Turning BlackBerry and Nokia, Which Used Android, Into Anti-Android Fronts That Tax Android OEMs

The Farce Which is Nokia's Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People's Ideas (and Patents)

Growing Threat to Free/Libre Software From Software Patents: Apple, Microsoft and Nokia Charge Ahead

Publisher Funded by Nokia's and Microsoft's Patent Trolls Expects More Attacks on Android OEMs

Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries

The Microsoft Operandi: Linux-Centric Xiaomi Pays Post-Microsoft Entryism Nokia for Patents

2016

Nokia is Now Officially a Patent Troll, Almost 6 Years After Microsoft Turned It Into One

Microsoft's Legacy at Nokia is Patent Shakedown and Feeding of Patent Trolls

Microsoft Has Killed Nokia (and Its Own Mobile Ambitions), But Watch What it Does With Patents

It's Official: By Means of Entryism, Microsoft Has Turned a Pro-Linux Nokia Into an Anti-Linux Patent Parasite

2015

Shamelessly Rewriting the History of Nokia to Embellish Massive Microsoft Layoffs

Corporate Media Frames Microsoft Layoffs as ‘Nokia Layoffs’, Despite Contradictory Facts

It's Official: Microsoft Turned Nokia Into Patent Aggressor Against Android/Linux for Royalty Stacking

Amid Microsoft Collapse Stephen Elop is Finally 'Fired', But Not Before He Cost Many Thousands of People (at Nokia) Their Job, Destroyed Linux-based Platforms, and Spread Patents to Patent Trolls

Microsoft's 'Not Windows is Not Allowed' Policy at Nokia

Microsoft Already Killed Nokia, Don't Let It Kill Android Players Too

2014

The GOP’s Patent Reform Plan Not Effective Enough to Stop Massive Patent Trolls Like Microsoft/Nokia

Good Nokia (Jolla) and Bad Nokia (Microsoft); or Good Derivatives and Bad Derivatives of Android Hardware

Elop Confirms That He Was Working for Microsoft All Along (Mole Inside Nokia)

2013

Belluzzo and Elop Became Synonymous With Microsoft Moles That Destroy

EU Commissioner VP Joaquin Almunia Aware of Microsoft’s Anti-Linux By-Proxy Patent Strategy (Nokia), Threatens Antitrust Action

While Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Litigation Front, Pre-Elop Nokia Revived, Jolla Sells All Available Phones

Explosive New Revelations About Elop’s Role Inside Nokia

Stephen Elop Outright Lied When He Said He Was Not a Trojan Horse, Reveal New Documents

Microsoft’s Patent Attack on Linux Android Advances to Next Stage With New Nokia Acquisition, Patent Setup

Nokia is Microsoft’s Antitrust Complaints Proxy, Microsoft Florian the AstroTurfing Proxy/Tool, and Bribes a Last Resort

Microsoft-controlled Nokia is Lobbying to Enable Bans on Android Imports (Linux Phones as a Whole in Danger)

Boycott Nokia for Attacking Free Software, FFII’s President Suggests

Nokia is Suing Android Directly, Using Patents; Microsoft’s Elop to Blame

Microsoft-led Nokia Once Again Attacks Android/Linux With Patents, This Time Directly

Dell Will be the Next Nokia Unless It Escapes Microsoft’s Grip

2012

Nokia Should Move to Linux Before Its Staff is All Gone (Except Microsoft Moles)

Boycott Nokia! Vringo, an Anti-Android/Linux Proxy for Microsoft (Through Nokia), Attacks Google

Rewriting Nokia’s History of Microsoft Takeover

Nokia Might Dump Windows, Embrace Android Soon

Microsoft-Led Nokia Continues to Feed Patent Trolls

Qt Team Admits It is Harmed by Nokia’s Behaviour After Microsoft Occupation

Nokia Betrays Qt, as Techrights Predicted in 2008

Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)

Microsoft Occupying Competing Companies

Windows on Phones is Hopeless

Microsoft’s Mole Stephen Elop is Hurting KDE

Nokia Shies Away From Direct Patent Extortion of Android

Microsoft-Led Nokia is Confirmed to be Already Extorting Android/Linux

Nokia is Already Fighting Android With Patents, at Microsoft’s Behest

MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again

Microsoft Dies in Hardware

Nokia the Latest Example of Dead Microsoft ‘Partners’, More Lined Up

Apple Seeks Android Bans Whilst Antitrust Attorney Speaks About Microsoft’s Latest Offences Against Android (Using Patent Proxies)

Linux Foundation Members That Pay Microsoft for Linux

With Microsoft Mole, Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Partner in Crime (Through MOSAID)

Collusion, Conspiracy and Patent Crimes From Microsoft Against Linux

Android Under Patent Attacks From Nokia, Microsoft, and Oracle

Software Patents and Trolls Devour Jobs While Microsoft Proxies Sue Android Companies

After the Demise of Microsoft’s FAT Patent

MeeGo Will Live Despite Microsoft Corruption

Microsoft Bugs Kill Nokia

Update on Patent Failures and Microsoft Lawsuits Against Linux Companies

Windows Phones: Still Dying While Linux is Thriving

Despite Moles, Patents, and Lawsuits, Linux-based Platforms Rule Mobility

Nokia Inevitably Realises Linux is Better Than Windows

Windows Mobile Death and Wiped Data, Applications

Microsoft Starts Extorting Competitors by Proxy, Using Nokia’s Patents

MSBBC Lies About Microsoft Market Share

Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls

Android’s Defence of Self From Apple, Patent Extortion Proxies, and Microsoft Lobbyists

Apple is Sued for Anti-competitive Practices; The Court Sees Patent Lawsuits/Actions by Proxy

Under Microsoft Leadership, Nokia Patents Passed to Patent Aggressor Sisvel, Likely Target is Android

Updates on Microsoft/Nokia and Apple Patent Wars on Linux

Software Patents and Bribes Against Android/Linux

2011

Microsoft and Nokia Caught AstroTurfing, Abusing/Attacking Genuine Posters

Latest Patent Attacks on Linux/Android and Why They Matter

Groklaw on MOSAID (Patent Troll for Microsoft)

Microsoft Inside

Microsoft Shrank Nokia and Fed its Patents to Trolls

MOSAID, Microsoft, and Antitrust

Nokia Can Oust — But Not Recover From — Microsoft Mole

Microsoft Mole Killed Linux Projects and Fed Patent Trolls for Attacks on Android

Microsoft’s Mobile Plan: Patents, Not Products

Executives Who ‘Leave’ Microsoft Become Moles, Patent Trolls, and Patent Lobbyists

Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft’s Feeding of Patent Trolls to Attack Linux (Android) in Court

Microsoft Confirms Role in Preparing to Litigate Using Patent Trolls as Proxies

Anti-Smartphones Patent Troll Equipped With 2,000 Microsoft-led Nokia Patents

Microsoft Has Lost the Mobile War to Linux, Stuck at Around 1% Market Share

When Microsoft Enters Linux We See Linux FUD

Microsoft’s Plan of Taxing Linux Using Nokia

Nokia Crushed by Microsoft While Windows Mobile Dies. Is Skype Next?

Microsoft Uses the Broken US Patent System to Attack Linux/Android From Multiple Sources, Wants Nokia’s Patents Too

Rumour: Microsoft to Take Over Nokia’s Mobile Unit Thanks to Entryism

Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About

Microsoft’s Mole at Nokia Harmed People and Harmed Free Software, Microsoft Moles at Juniper Put Internet Users at Risk

Microsoft Failed in the Hardware Business

Microsoft Still Uses Nokia to Attack Linux

Microsoft’s Elop is Like Rick Belluzzo – Hijacks Nokia, Sells to Microsoft, Then Exits

As Expected, Nokia is Attacking Android/Linux Following Microsoft Takeover

Microsoft is Bad for the Economy

Senior Figure at Nokia: “This isn’t a deal between Nokia and Microsoft, this is a Microsoft take over.”

Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents

Can’t Produce Better Phones? Sue the Rival and Misuse Security, Says the Microsoft Camp

Windows Phones Become Extinct

Groklaw’s Message to Microsoft: Spend More on Products and Less on FUD/PR

Stephen Elop is Bricking Nokia

Microsoft is Polluting the Codec and Mobile Space With Software Patents

Vista Phony 7 a Disaster to Developers, Verizon Gives It Thumbs Down

Motorola Dumps Windows, Opposite of Nokia

The ‘New Nokia’ is a Patent Problem in Europe

Calls for Lawsuits Against Microsoft’s Elop for Conflict of Interest; Billions in ‘Bribe’ Involved

Maneuverers of Microsoft in an Age of Software Patents

Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem

Microsoft’s President Elop is Allegedly Killing Linux Inside Nokia/Intel, Just When MeeGo Gets Android Compatibility (Updated)

Report: Nokia’s New CEO From Microsoft About to Fire Existing Nokia Executives

Microsoft Disruptors Versus Linux Smartphones Domination

Analyst Wants Microsoft’s Elop (Now Nokia CEO) to Shoot Down Linux Programmes

Will Elop Choose the Future (Linux) or His Past (Microsoft) for Nokia?

Apple Sues Nokia Again – Linux and/or Symbian Under Attack by Patents

Microsoft’s Influence in the MSBBC, Intel, Nokia

Microsoft’s Favourite ‘Reporters’ Are Attacking Nokia, Pushing it Into Microsoft’s Arms

2010

Why It’s Unlikely That Nokia Will Turn to Windows, Despite Microsoft Appointment

Apple is Bullying Competitors — Including Linux — Using Software Patents

Stephen Elop Says No New Linux Phones From Nokia This Year, Talks About Cross-platform Qt

As Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New Leadership

New Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEO

If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)

Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat

Microsoft Insiders Galore: BBC, Nokia, Others Already Damaged by Microsoft Hires

Microsoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?

Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?

Software Patents Rumble: Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and GNU/Linux

Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Monsanto, Pfizer, and ACTA

Why Nokia Sued Apple First (or Why Apple is Possibly the ‘Bad Guy’)

2009

Nokia Expands Patent Strike Against Apple

Nokia Criticised for Patent Attack, Interim In Re Bilski Rule Does Not Go Far Enough

Patents Roundup: Nokia and Apple Cross Swords, British Patent System Becomes Form of Tax, Israel Besieged by Software Patents

Nokia Lets Its Inner Patent Monster Go Loose

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