<OT> Why Microsoft has to go ...

[burns]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:48, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> I think the point is that the patents are all the company really has and 
> M$ is stealling them.  I know that big money tends to play legal games 
> to get the things they want but this makes no sense.  The license should 
> cost less than the legal fees.  Plus, the bad publicity and already 
> being in legal trouble with the feds.  Somebody at M$ is clearly not 
> thinking.

Makes perfect sense from Bill's point of view. This is precisely what he
has done to build his business since he was a marginal hack programmer
working in a shed in New Mexico. Where do you think 90% of the ideas
that now make up Windows came from?
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burns