__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:18 \__
> - Original Message -
>
> From: Eric Rudder
> Sent: Monday, December 07 1998 1:55 PM
> To: Bill Gates
>
> Subject: free desktop suite from star
>
> Star offers desktop suite for free
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C29599%2C00.HTML?DD.NE.TX.FS2.1207
>
> it's scary the corel's code is potentially in play too ... if i were
> oracle or sun, i'd think abt either supporting star, or picking up a
> snapshot of corel really cheaply, and offering at an insanely low price.
>
> - eric
>
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent: Monday, December 07 1998 8:28 PM
> To: Jon DeVann; Steven Sinofsky; Bill Neukom (LCA)
> Cc: John Mason (LCA)
> Subject: FW: free desktop suite from star
>
> Importance: Low
>
> Attorney client privileged
>
> An Interesting development...
>
> At some point we will have to consider the patents they violate
>
> I am unclear of what their business strategy is with the free version.
> It is a good product developed by a surprisingly lean team of people.
>
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04023.pdf
It's just the same type of tactic which they now engage in during their
(inevitably lost) fight against GNU/Linux and Free software. How many 'Men
in Black' did they use to make software patents legal?
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