“Last month… Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever
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Lets hope that they have the means to take Micro all the way. IMHO MS could just keep delaying the action making it more costlier by the hour for this company if they are really small. Maybe some big companies previously damaged should set up a fighting fund for them.
Something about Microsoft that’s not original?
Hard to believe…..
If I were a Microsoft lawyer, I’d recommend they pay a good $2billion to InterTrust before much more time passes. Not that they couldn’t lobby and get a more agreeable judge, but that they don’t want to win this. They just filed patents on .Net that looks like a glossary for computing and the web–talk about vague and far reaching!
So if their future strategy is all based on patent grabs and lawsuits, they should be just roll over to a patent holder so that they can claim precedent. Because god knows, much of their stuff is obvious (as in obviously copied from open source but the source code will never see the light of day, kind of obvious).
M$ profiting from someone else’s work. Same shite, different day!
Intertrust, BG3 has made profits from your work. Settle out-of-court for ALL of those profits, and nothing less.
Borrow money to pay your lawyers to get it, even if you have to give it all to lawyers and the lender.
Of course they could just fight until Ashcroft steps in and with a wave of the hand pardons poor little Microsoft… again.
YES!!! haha..i hope m$ goes to hell with this one…if microsoft must put a halt to selling all products using this DRM then that means that all of the other vendors selling M$ products will either have to halt sales or they will run out eventually…this could turn into something very big and I wonder that since Buy.com’s music service worked with microsoft on getting started if they use this same DRM if they do then bye bye buymusic.com this could be huge for apple not only in dominating the computer market but the music as well…oh and imagine that this came around right around the time when people will be buying computers for school. Think of what this means if they go through…they will have to rewrite Window, Windows Media Player, .Net, X-Box ..the whole works!! This could be indeed the end of microsoft, and well if they manage to stick in there then I think that long-horn will just have to wait a few more years to get off the ground …aww darn!
APPLE WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!
You have to understand that with enough money Microsoft can drag this throught the courts for 1,000 years. Every trial have flaws that the lawyers can turn into appeals, forever. But, more than that if Microsoft delayed enough to rewrite their products without using the offending material, they would be ready to release all new products which would be legal by the time they were directed to cease selling their current products. They then drag any judgement through the courts until they win.
Bill Gates perjured himself, faked evidence, was convicted of violating the law and the 9th Circuit and the Justice Department let him walk. One judge isn’t going to make a difference.
I don’t give a damn about what anyone says! Congratulations to InterTrust!! I hope they straight up RAPE MicroSUCK!! It’s MicroSTEAL. They’re the shittiest company in the world and the wealthiest and I hope they come down hard! The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Prepare for the revolution!!!
Anthony, you’re funny man. You’re just like me! Let’s hope you’re right! LOL!!
Rick, everyone hopes you’re wrong!
Wait a doggone minute. Apple uses DRM. I hope they don’t go after my favorite computer company next.
Um, seems to me if this company is small, Microsoft will Oracle ’em like Peoplesoft.
I agree with Mac Daddy, its time for a a modern day mac revoloution!!!! Yeah!!!! woo felt good to get that out…but no seriously lets try to get enough people to show their support for InterTrust to bring m$ down once and for all…and let the macintosh revoloution has begin…I think someone should make a website (hint hint). Well for those of you that are interested here are is some infromation I came across:
Info E-Mail
info@intertrust.com
Address:
InterTrust Technologies Corporation
4800 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
M$ Infringment Overview:
http://www.intertrust.com/main/ip/litigation.html
Full List Of Products accused of infringment
http://www.intertrust.com/main/ip/accused.html
Wow, looks like InterTrust has laid claim to a lot of areas. They’re just going after the biggest fish first; this is pretty typical of someone with a patent. If they actually pull it off, MS will just pay a reasonable fee — they won’t go bankrupt or anything ridiculous like that. Apple will be on their list as well, and probably Sun, etc.
Looking at some of the patents, they are ridiculous. Basically transferring stuff securely is one of their patents. Then they mention every possible permutation of transferring stuff from one computer to another. If this goes through it would be bad for everyone.
Anthony, email me: bmantzey@mac.com .
Same as SCO.
Those who can do.
Those who can’t sue.
I wouldn’t be suprised if M$ didn’t just buy them and then turn around and file the same claims against everyone else.
I agree with David. The same happened when m$ ripped off some diskspace software (added some major flaws) and stuck in dos. Then followed the law suit, so it was removed, then they bought the company, and added the newly aquired company’s version (which was a lot more stable and less likely to trash your data) into the next dos version.
TheloniusMac… youre a retard.
SCO has a legit case.
It sounds like this co has a legit case against MS too.
“those who can do, those who dont sue”
what a fucking retard.
Oh and if you dont think SCO has a legit case…
Just look at a few of the man pages on a downloaded “opensource” Linux system. They didnt even bother to take the SCO copyright lines out of most of them.
“(C) 1983-1995 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.”
So what?
Gates is a friend of the Busholes. Corporate America is getting anything it wants, ANYTHING, from Ashcroft, Hastert & Frist,LLP, with the full blessings of the Scalia-Thomas crime syndicate.
Ashcroft will intern InterTrust at Guantanamo for a lifetime, sans lawyers and trial, before Bush lets anything happen to Dollar Bill.
Or did someone think the DOJ dropping the anti-trust case IT HAD WON against M$ was a fluke?
Unfortunately Microsoft has “00” status with the US Government. They are untouchable and have a license to kill, lie, cheat and steal. The best one could expect to see out of this is for MS to pay out a small fee. Sony and Philips involvement is no fluke (think friendly buy-out).
They are offering less than 500 Million for the patent rights of InterTrust. Big money to you and I but nothing these corporate giants. If MS is infringing to the extent alleged then Sony and Phillips are stealing a cash cow! You have to ask why give up your cash cow for so little? Why not start here and work your way down the list. As a matter of fact would Sony or Phillips be next on InterTrusts list?
Sony long ago learned it’s lesson with proprietary technology. Can you say Betamax? If they are successful at purchasing InterTrust. Expect the quick turnaround and give it up to MS for some deal like killing MS in the consumer electronics market segment.
As for our beloved Apple and Steve Jobs, let’s pray they’re paying customers of InterTrust. Or at the very least silent partners the market Apple holds today is small and I’d much prefer to see my next G7-GX box than have them wrapped up on the other side of the table of this mess.
iPods & iTunes Music Store forever.
I don’t know but it all sounds to me like a huge load of shit. I know, I know. It’s all a conspiracy! You know what else? Bill Gates paid George Bush to take out Iraq. Yea, Bill and George go way back. RRrrrrright… Give me a break!
Yea, that and Sony and Phillips are butt-buddies of Microsoft.