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.
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| “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].”
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| [...]
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| 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
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| [...]
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| 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 ..
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| One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have
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| 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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