Microsoft sued by Symantec!!

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Hello World said:
It seems that even microsoft is failing to observe EULAs for
intellectual property it had access to and so it is now being sued by
symantec.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6074055.html

I wonder if Vista will ever be released if law suits continue by the
day! Perhaps M$ should stick with XP and it can raise the required
revenues for its stock holders by charging for patches!!
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Oh dear. What a shame - BG might not get an Xmas bonus :-)
If no Vista, then MS can concentrate on getting XP better!!!!
and keep the tech minds on updates that work.
Hoping for that though might be like pizzing in the wind.
Antioch
 
It seems that even microsoft is failing to observe EULAs for
intellectual property it had access to and so it is now being sued by
symantec.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6074055.html

I wonder if Vista will ever be released if law suits continue by the
day! Perhaps M$ should stick with XP and it can raise the required
revenues for its stock holders by charging for patches!!
 
Hello World said:
It seems that even microsoft is failing to observe EULAs for
intellectual property it had access to and so it is now being sued by
symantec.

I wonder if Vista will ever be released if law suits continue by the
day! Perhaps M$ should stick with XP and it can raise the required
revenues for its stock holders by charging for patches!!
Click to expand...

Before you start MS bashing, read the whole story without bias. This one is
a little different than the usual "MS stole our idea" whining that companies
do.

Brian
 
Also, the intellectual property in question belonged to Veritas, which
is a recently acquired division of Symantec. It's simply a ploy to get
a cash settlement from Microsoft to fund more acquisitions, since
Symantec is no longer able to use Norton Home products as a cash
cow. Instead of hiring rooms filled with lawyers they need to hire
more programmers.
 
Hello World said:
It seems that even microsoft is failing to observe EULAs for
intellectual property it had access to and so it is now being sued by
symantec.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6074055.html

I wonder if Vista will ever be released if law suits continue by the
day! Perhaps M$ should stick with XP and it can raise the required
revenues for its stock holders by charging for patches!!
Click to expand...


"Microsoft licensed a "light" version of Volume Manager from Veritas in
1996 and used it in Windows 2000". Well it depends on what that license
said Microsoft could do. As with Microsoft acquiring Giant's
Antispyware, they got a "code branch" of that product in their purchase
which allows them the source code but they can do whatever they want
with it despite what Sunbelt does with their code branch version of the
license that they got from Giant. They got the base product from the
same source but each can go off in their own direction with it. Sounds
like what Microsoft thinks happened when they got Volume Manager from
Veritas but since we don't get to see the contract or license then we
won't know who is right until the court decides (and that has more to do
with politics and "common sense", as legally defined, than with logic
and computer-literate judges).
 
R. McCarty said:
Also, the intellectual property in question belonged to Veritas, which
is a recently acquired division of Symantec. It's simply a ploy to get
a cash settlement from Microsoft to fund more acquisitions, since
Symantec is no longer able to use Norton Home products as a cash
cow. Instead of hiring rooms filled with lawyers they need to hire
more programmers.
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What, you haven't followed Symantec's history? When has Symantec *ever*
produced a product? They don't produce. They buy someone else's
product and regurgitate. They are a software publisher, not a software
developer. And, true to form, they went out and bought Veritas.
They're suing Microsoft to protect against dilution of their investment.
 
Hello World said:
It seems that even microsoft is failing to observe EULAs for
intellectual property it had access to and so it is now being sued by
symantec.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6074055.html

I wonder if Vista will ever be released if law suits continue by the
day! Perhaps M$ should stick with XP and it can raise the required
revenues for its stock holders by charging for patches!!
Click to expand...
Like Apple does?
 
"--raise the required revenues for its stock holders by charging for
patches."--

This is widely done by many software houses. Add a bit of fluff, patch a few
problems, and change the name a bit.
 
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