A Rueters Canada piece about the overturned $1.5 billion ruling against Microsoft, makes me believe that we are at the dawn of a dark age of intellectual property (IP) based litigation amongst tech firms. The lawyers must be salivating, because if a ruling like that ever stands up in appeal, there is a crap load of money to be made. Lucky for Microsoft, that a judge saw things their way.
I am not implying anything, I don't know the exact particulars, but still not having to shell out $1.5 billion should make Microsoft very happy. I wonder if they could have paid that out in unsold Zunes?
Who is this nut?
- kired
- "You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?" T. Pratchett
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