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[News] MS/Novell: Same Trick, Different Victim

Transcript of Press Conference (Sun/Microsoft, 2004)

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| STEVE BALLMER: No, there's a few things. First, we put in place -- we
| deal with all of the antitrust matters. That has to -- just so we have
| a foundation to move forward.
| 
| Second, we put in place what I'd best describe as a patent regime
| between the two companies that serves as a framework to make -- to
| ensure that we don't run afoul of one another in ways past or
| forward-looking that would be problematic to the technical collaboration.
| 
| Third, we agreed on specific technical collaboration as it relates to
| how you make servers and clients talk to one another across the
| network. And each of these is long and detailed and certainly the
| detail of that is best probably gone through with the key teams on
| both sides and there are folks here from both Sun and Microsoft who
| can do that. But there are things that need to get licensed in terms
| of making these things plug together over the network. There's a
| licensing framework that's put in place for that.
| 
| So I'd say that's the elements and then if you take a look at the
| payment, some of the money is to resolve our antitrust lawsuit. Some
| of the payment takes a look back and says let's make sure we are clean 
| with respect to one another on patents. Some of it is forward-looking in 
| terms of how we work together from a patent perspective. And then some
| of it is forward-looking, us to Sun and Sun to us, in terms of the
| licensing of key intellectual property that relates to making these
| things plug together and interoperate well over the network. 
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