"Thufir Hawat" <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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You say that the reason they settled cannot be determined, but it must
be that TomTom had no confidence in winning and were concerned with
minimizing their likely loss.
Where's your evidence? It's just guess work and interpretation. The
lack of a statement from TomTom is telling. No one has posted firsthand
knowledge about what TomTom was thinking.
Well, you could take some view that was more favorable, but you are just
whistling past the graveyard, I think, telling yourself that maybe things
are not as bleak as they appear. Maybe TomTom was confident of winning
their case but their lawyers had planned to go on an extended tour of the
Holy Lands and wanted the whole thing to just go away before they left so
that they were not going to be interrupted by having to work on the case.
Maybe TomTom felt that things were going so bad for Microsoft that they owed
them a leg up and so considered the settlement payments as a gift.
I think it was probably because they knew they were going to lose and it was
cheaper to make a settlement and take a license.
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