I've tried to do my homework, by reading the supplied links. I also found Ernie Ball guitar strings at http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
I would have accepted the "Personal experience." answer if it was spelled out just a little more so I could realize it meant all of the statements, including the "and all assets went to Microsoft" part. And I obviously don't understand how their enforcers work. I don't have a clue. As Chad said: "I don't doubt that Microsoft makes it difficult for computer stores to sell computers without Windows." I reread my previous post. The part of false accusations was not aimed at anyone. I'm really sorry that it could be read that way. Groklaw "http://www.groklaw.net/ is my favourite site. Differences of opinions are OK, but not rudeness. The truth is what matters. /$ 2005/12/9, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:38 +0100, Henrik Sundberg wrote: > > > This was the statement: > > > If a vendor failed to adhere to that, then the vendor was shut down, > > > and all assets went to Microsoft. > > > > And this was the question related to it: > > >Care to give any evidence at all that this happened? Especially the > > >Microsoft getting all their stuff after they closed up shop. > > > > I'm sorry if this was answered by the links. I haven't seen an answer > > in this thread though. > > Jonathan cited personal experience. Now that might be all that he has > but in the context of all the other evidence it seems plausible and > personally I wouldn't want to call him a liar. > > If you read the background, for example, of the Ernie Ball guitar > strings case and the reasons why they migrated to Linux, the evidence is > that if that had been a smaller less financially secure company, the > action could well have led to the company being shut down. A large > multinational filing a law suite against a small company could well > result in it going out of business whether or not the small company had > done anything at all wrong. If MS proved their grievance, and in the > Ernie Ball case it was obviously a genuine mistake, they could then > claim the company's assets in compensation. If compensation > assets > that gives the exact scenario Jonathan described. > > So I would say that if something like that happened to Jonathan or a > friend or colleague of his, its entirely plausible. > > Why anyone would want to devote so much time to defending a criminal > that is a repeated offender, shows no remorse or willingness to reform > is beyond me, especially when that criminal is also the major competitor > to our own project. I can only think this is deliberate mischief. > > -- > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ZMS Ltd > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
