"Doug Mentohl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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
Well that is a rather biased view of the matter, to be sure. If the
Microsoft patents read on the Tom-Tom product, they have the right to demand
a license. They have licensed Tom-Tom competitors, it seems, so the most
likely story is that they just want their well-deserved income.
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