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2007 07 03

Dirty Little Microsoft Trick Returns from the Grave, Repeats Itself Today

Santa Cruz to DOJ in '96 & EU in '97: MS forces us to pay royalties forever for their old Xenix code we don't want

So for those who are puzzling over Microsoft's motives in doing the latest patent deals, might it be as simple as that, that Microsoft wants to be paid for all products on the market, force competing products to cost more, and to control the competition? Folks are, after all, agreeing to pay royalties on "Something in Linux" that they claim they don't know about specifically but which might or might not infringe Microsoft patents which might or might not be valid and to accept terms of control. I'd talk about the interoperability agreements, but "Microsoft" and "interoperability" don't really belong in the same sentence.

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