Re: [Patents] Microsoft to pay .5 bn for license to extend web-browser

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:46, 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 think they'd faster push for more expensive software patents,
in order to keep the patent game favourable to the big
established players by making this kind of very rare cases more
difficult to happen.

Rui

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