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[News] Microsoft Explains How It Became a Racketeering Company

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“Burning The Ships”: IP And The New, Open Microsoft 

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| IPW: Does the recent case involving TomTom navigational devices and 
| open-source software - in which Microsoft sued over patent infringement and 
| TomTom sued back - represent the kind of business environment Microsoft 
| promotes? Why or why not?   
| 
| PHELPS: What happened here and has happened on a very few cases, is that MS 
| had great difficulty getting attention from TomTom and was forced into 
| action.  
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/04/03/burning-the-ships-ip-and-the-new-open-microsoft/


Recent:

TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out - Updated

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| Ah, yes. Mono. Once again. And OOXML. Might governmental agencies wish to
| particularly take note of OOXML in light of the TomTom settlement? I would
| think so. And .NET and Silverlight. Perhaps you can think of others.
|
| [...]
|
|  Wake up. Microsoft should be treated like Microsoft.
|
| It is what it is. It is what it always has been.
|
| Microsoft asked recently to be judged by its actions, not its words. OK. The
| TomTom settlement *is* Microsoft actions. We watched it, and we judge them by
| it.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090401152339514
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