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- From: Serge Marelli <serge.marelli@linux.lu>
- To: Sylvain Perchaud <sylvain@europe-shareware.org>
- Cc: Brevets <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsofts pays USD 12,75 million to Opera
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:47:16 +0200
- Organization: LiLux a.s.b.l.
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:37, Sylvain Perchaud wrote:
> Microsoft, which has willfully made its MSN pages incompatible with
> Opera, paid the european shareware company USD 12,75 million to avoid
> litigation.
>
> This a new, and impressive, success for Opera. I think we should say more
> offently that we have european market leaders against software patents
> (Opera in the mobile phone market, WinRAR for compression utilities,
> oXygen from Europe Shareware for XML editors, etc).
Success is not measured by money.
I believe real success would have been to have MSFT "willfully make its
MSN pages _compatible_ with Opera"...
was that in the deal as well?
Serge
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- Re: [Patents] Microsofts pays USD 12,75 million to Opera, Serge Marelli
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