Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle

2009-04-06 Thread Sermo Malifer
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

Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle

2009-04-06 Thread Sermo Malifer
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:35:30 -0400, amicus_curious wrote: Sermo Malifer sermomali...@noemail.com wrote in message news:grcvqf$r5...@news.albasani.net... No, he's just observing you have no evidence to support your assertions. Of course I do. No you don't, as proved by your continued

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-17 Thread Sermo Malifer
Hadron wrote: Rex Ballard rex.ball...@gmail.com writes: On Mar 14, 4:06 pm, Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote: 'Microsoft's got a long history of licensing its File Allocation Table/Long File Name (FAT LFN) with companies in the car navigation space and that have specifically

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-17 Thread Sermo Malifer
amicus_curious wrote: Rahul Dhesi c.c.ei...@xrexxtomxt.usenet.us.com wrote in message news:gpmeri$f3...@blue.rahul.net... amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: What is kind of interesting here is that the GPL purists, notably SJVN, a Linux blogger of note, is insisting that TomTom be barred

Re: [!NEWS] The GNUtards Must Be Crazy

2009-03-12 Thread Sermo Malifer
Doctor Smith wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:51:32 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: Rjack wrote: These true open source licenses embody the very essence of the meaning of free as used in the English language. These true open source licenses are much beloved by the bottom-feeding leeches who feel

Re: Saxon sues RIM, Palm and Nokia over patent violation ..

2009-02-10 Thread Sermo Malifer
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:14:47 +, Roy Schestowitz wrote: / Sermo Malifer on Monday 09 February 2009 18:20 : \ On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:06:41 +, Doug Mentohl wrote: Saxon Innovations of Tyler, a patent-holding company from Texas, is reported to have claimed that up to three

Re: Saxon sues RIM, Palm and Nokia over patent violation ..

2009-02-09 Thread Sermo Malifer
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:06:41 +, Doug Mentohl wrote: Saxon Innovations of Tyler, a patent-holding company from Texas, is reported to have claimed that up to three patents it owned had been violated by six companies that import handsets into the United States, including Research in Motion,

Re: nanotech nuclear radiation protection fabric patented ..

2009-02-09 Thread Sermo Malifer
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:04:05 +, Doug Mentohl wrote: Radiation Shield Technologies says its Demron fabric, developed to offer protections from chemical, biological, radiological threats, received the patent. Officials say the nanotechnology developed for the Demron fabric was the key