Santa Cruz to DOJ in '96 & EU in '97: MS forces us to pay royalties forever for
their old Xenix code we don't want
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| So for those who are puzzling over Microsoft's motives in doing the
| latest patent deals, might it be as simple as that, that Microsoft
| wants to be paid for all products on the market, force competing
| products to cost more, and to control the competition?
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| Folks are, after all, agreeing to pay royalties on "Something in Linux"
| that they claim they don't know about specifically but which might or
| might not infringe Microsoft patents which might or might not be valid
| and to accept terms of control. I'd talk about the interoperability
| agreements, but "Microsoft" and "interoperability" don't really
| belong in the same sentence.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070630230615981
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