Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Analysis: Microsoft-TomTom settlement is end of a battle, not the war
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> | The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization focused on protecting
> | open-source and free software, said in a statement that the "settlement
> | between Microsoft and TomTom ends one phase of the community's response
> | to Microsoft patent aggression and begins another. On the basis of the
> | information we have, we have no reason to believe that TomTom's
> | settlement agreement with Microsoft violates the license on the kernel,
> | Linux, or any other free software used in its products. The settlement
> | neither implies that Microsoft patents are valid nor that TomTom's
> | products were or are infringing."
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action
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Clearest warning ever.
Micoshaft will feign a climb down and be back again and again with
more and more patent suits.
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