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- From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
- To: weigelt@metux.de
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsoft to pay .5 bn for license to extend web-browser
- Date: 13 Aug 2003 18:15:51 +0200
- Organization: Xsec s.r.l.
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:37, weigelt@metux.de wrote:
> 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" ... :(((
And you can say: "look, Microsoft can pay so much, but a normal SME
can't. A normal SME would have been put out of business by a trivial
unknown patent".
Simo.
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