On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:52:29 -0500, amicus_curious wrote: > "Doug Mentohl" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >>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.
I agree with that and if Microsoft has infringed upon the GPL then the owner of the program also has a right to compensation. I'm a believer in people being paid for their works. It remains to be seen how this plays out legally though. Anyone can file a lawsuit and just about for any reason,winning and collecting are a totally different matter. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
