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- From: weigelt@metux.de
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsoft to pay .5 bn for license to extend web-browser
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:37:56 +0200
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:46:13PM +0200, Roland Orre wrote:
> One hope is that, as a result of this kind of offensive cases, Microsoft
> would finally realize how bad software patents are and revert to their
> earlier (at least Bill Gates') critical view of software patents, but...
> maybe that is to hope for too much.
I dont think that they will. This money comes from the coffe cup ...
The impact for us is: now they can say "look, we sometimes also have to
pay very much for patent licenses to smaller companies - so swpats
are also good for SMEs" ... :(((
cu
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