<OT> Why Microsoft has to go ...

[joel]

Well, not much really happened in court. Just some lost emails.
What seems fishy is:
1. The author says you lose your patents if you go bankrupt. Individuals 
can keep patents. If the corporation was in danger of going bankrupt, 
why couldn't they sell the patents or assign them to officers of the 
corporation as compensation, etc. Losing patents on technology you have 
spent $$ on just because the company goes bankrupt doesn't seem right.
2. If this is cross platform technology and is good stuff, why didn't 
other companies buy their technology?
3. Damages of hundreds of millions of dollars are being bandied about in 
this article. If this technology is worth that much, how did the company 
get reduced to 2 people. Why can't they just sell this technology and be 
multimillionaires.
3. These are lawyers talking.

Joel


Michael Hipp wrote:

> In case there is ever any doubt about why Microsoft has become so 
> hated and despised ...
>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030828.html
>
> Michael
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