Being relatively uninterested in bringing down Microsoft, but extremely interested in the key to secure commerce, I wonder if someone can shed some more light on this "fantastic" technology that took more that 3 years to productify?
http://www.intertrust.com/main/overview/trustcomputing.html Paying $400M for a 39-person company seems a bit steep these days but who knows.... Anders ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "internet-payments" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 21:33 Subject: Intertrust, Can Victor Shear Bring Down Microsoft? http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,400412,00.html INTERTRUST Can Victor Shear Bring Down Microsoft? Maybe not. But his company's patent suit is the biggest legal threat to Microsoft since the antitrust case. FORTUNE Tuesday, December 17, 2002 By Roger Parloff Imagine you had a nickel for every compact disc that's ever been made. The patent holders of the CD technology do have nearly all those nickels. Sony Corp. of America and Royal Philips Electronics get 3 cents for every CD manufactured, plus 3% of the price of every CD player sold. .. snip ...
