On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:02:43 -0400, amicus_curious wrote: > "Thufir Hawat" <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:w6hcl.1223$g%5...@newsfe23.iad... > > >>> You say that the reason they settled cannot be determined, but it must >>> be that TomTom had no confidence in winning and were concerned with >>> minimizing their likely loss. >> >> Where's your evidence? It's just guess work and interpretation. The >> lack of a statement from TomTom is telling. No one has posted >> firsthand knowledge about what TomTom was thinking. >> > Well, you could take some view that was more favorable,
Or you could just support your view. > but you are just > whistling past the graveyard, I think, telling yourself that maybe > things are not as bleak as they appear. No, he's just observing you have no evidence to support your assertions. > Maybe TomTom was confident of > winning their case but their lawyers had planned to go on an extended > tour of the Holy Lands and wanted the whole thing to just go away before > they left so that they were not going to be interrupted by having to > work on the case. Maybe TomTom felt that things were going so bad for > Microsoft that they owed them a leg up and so considered the settlement > payments as a gift. You seem to like to make up stories. That's a lot easier than getting the facts, isn't it? > I think it was probably because they knew they were going to lose and it > was cheaper to make a settlement and take a license. A Wintroll thinks a Linux company couldn't possibly win against M$! Somebody alert the news services! _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss