But the first offer knocked out.
Once Microsoft and Nokia were on the same page about those terms, executives from both companies met in early July in New York, where they finally had a breakthrough. Microsoft proposed that Nokia could grant a license to its mapping service that would allow Microsoft access to its source code, so it could customize the service and own any improvements it made. Nokia liked the idea, which still gave it the freedom to freely license the mapping service to other companies.
Nokia’s side huddled in another conference room to consider the proposal. They weren’t satisfied. The price Microsoft was offering for Nokia was a major sticking point, but there were many other ways in which Nokia and Microsoft weren’t seeing eye-to-eye, including who would retain ownership of Nokia’s mapping Here-service
So went one of several pivotal meetings in Microsoft’s long, on-and-off courtship of Nokia, which finally ended this week with the software giant’s $7.2 billion agreement to purchase the Finnish company’s mobile phone and services business. The following account is drawn from people with intimate knowledge of the negotiations, who declined to be identified because the discussions were confidential.
Why and what can be the motive about this case, leaks it to the newspapers?
Wash over MS?
The men discussed the lack of progress in their deal talks and unrelated topics, like the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s Prism Internet surveillance program by the former N.S.A .contractor Edward Snowden. The Microsoft executives spent all of four hours on the ground in Finland.
reakthrough. Microsoft proposed that Nokia could grant a license to its mapping service that would allow Microsoft access to its source code, so it could customize the service and own any improvements it made. Nokia liked the idea, which still gave it the freedom to freely license the mapping service to other
companies.
This, in turn defend Nokia, wrongly.
They made a bad bargain.
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