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[News] [Rival] How Microsoft Uses Software Patents to Abuse the Market

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] How Microsoft Uses Software Patents to Abuse the Market
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:44:45 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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EU: Microsoft Raised IP Rights As Late Defence In European Case

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| Microsoft’s rival Sun Microsystems had complained to the Commission that the 
| US software giant would not grant it data needed to ensure that Windows was 
| interoperable.  
| 
| “Microsoft’s defence was that the information was covered by intellectual 
| property rights,” Hellstrom said. “This argument was never used when Sun 
| asked for the information. It was only used in the eleventh hour. Microsoft 
| showed one patent a day before we adopted our decision [in 2004].”   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, a senior researcher with the United Nations University in 
| Maastricht, Netherlands, noted that royalty-free standards are already being 
| used in the computer industry. For example, the World Wide Web Consortium, a 
| body dedicated to greater advancement of the Internet, promotes interoperable 
| software.    
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=920


Related:

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| From nathanm Mon Oct 01 11:42:05 1990
| To: billg; bradsi;
| Subject: SPARC, MIPS & Compaq
| DateL Tue Oct 02, 22:57:14 1990
|
| [...]
|
| The purpose of announcing early like this is to freeze the market at the 
|                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| OEM and ISV level. In this respect it is JUST like the original Windows 
| announcement ..
| 
| One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have 
|                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| vaporware, that people will stop buying 486 machines, that we will have 
| ^^^^^^^^^
| endorsed RISC but not delivered .. So, Scott, do you really think you 
| can fight that avalanche?
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_0411_A.pdf

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