Microsoft EULA - what's next

[W. Curtiss Priest]

A quick note about Microsoft.

Seth will enjoy this one as he programmed the CQL (SQL) engine
I embedded in a DOS product that permitted people to
"share information using folders."

I actually received several patents, see, e.g.:

http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05167011__


It turned out that our product was much too early, but, MS Outlook
infringed on the patent.

I can say, first hand, that Microsoft is truly vicious.  After
three years of negotiating and arbitration, Microsoft paid
a measely $200K to my licensing firm, but litigation costs on both
sides were about $1.5 million, of which I got ONLY, a few free meals
for the deposition when with MS attornies in NY.

These guys play to get "all the marbles."

I do hope that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gets them
on anti-trust charges!  Time will tell.

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           W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
      Center for Information, Technology & Society
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