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Microsoft Changes Tune on Intellectual Property
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| Burning the Ships provides insight into Microsoft's recent IP moves from an
| insider's perspective, but the company's newfound desire to share doesn't
| seem like all good news for the tech industry. The question isn't whether
| there should be IP rights, but whether current law strikes the right balance.
| I have concerns that it doesn't.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/microsoft_chang.html;jsessionid=JOQXVT5EOLADEQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Recent:
“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?
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| 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/
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.
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| It is what it is. It is what it always has been.
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| 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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