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From: | Doug Mentohl |
Subject: | Re: Microsoft's IP chief on TomTom, Linux and patents .. |
Date: | Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:11:05 +0000 |
User-agent: | BlackBerry8330/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105 |
7 wrote:
This is the first shot in their patent war.
Not really, more like SCO 11 ..."Assertions are year-long, or two years long. Maybe Microsoft wanted to buy TomTom, but they didn't want to sell. So they started asserting patents, hoping to encourage them to at least only license Microsoft operating systems. That didn't work, so they sued."
"It is not beneath a monopolist to put all these pieces together and look to take advantage of a situation."
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4186728102.html
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