"norm" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:u8mu7cYuJHA.4488@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:[color=green]
>> "The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'"
>> <me211@privacy.net> wrote in message news:grm84p$tgk$1@aioe.org...[color=darkred]
>>> Alias wrote:
>>>> [url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131339[/url]
>>>> Now ain't that nice, MS gets fined for stealing WPA. The irony! MS gets
>>>> conviction of stealing the program they use to make sure no one steals
>>>> from them!
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>>
>>> Oh, that is priceless! Thanks for sharing. :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
>>> - Linus Torvalds
>>>
>>> DRM and unintended consequences:
>>> [url]http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101[/url][/color]
>>
>>
>> Its states an infringement of a patent, not theft directly. Either way,
>> it has cost MS dear..
>>
>>[/color]
> Maybe I misunderstand, but if infringing on a patent is not theft, then
> how is not adhering to a eula theft? How many times have people in this ng
> been called thieves because they are outside of the parameters of a eula?
>
> --
> norm[/color]


We are not party to how the patent was infringed, that is to say that there
was no reference to MS knowingly using Uniloc's code. There are, however,
two things which we do know.

1. The jurors do not like Microsoft
2. The directors of Uniloc will be able to pay themselves a nice bonus
should they feel the need.. :-)


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Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/[/url]