consider what patents Star violate ..

- Original Message -

From: Eric Rudder
Sent: Monday, December 07 1998 1:55 PM
To: Bill Gates

Subject: free desktop suite from star

Star offers desktop suite for free
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C29599%2C00.HTML?DD.NE.TX.FS2.1207

it's scary the corel's code is potentially in play too ... if i were oracle or sun, i'd think abt either supporting star, or picking up a snapshot of corel really cheaply, and offering at an insanly low price.

- eric

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Monday, December 07 1998 8:28 PM
To: Jon DeVann; Steven Sinofsky; Bill Neukom (LCA)
Cc: John Mason (LCA)
Subject: FW: free desktop suite from star

Importance: Low

Attorney client priveleged

An Interesting development...

At some point we will have to consider the patents thay violate

I am unclear of what their business strategy is with the free version. It is a good product developed by a suprisingly lean team of people.


http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04023.pdf

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http://news.com.com/Star+offers+desktop+suite+for+free/2100-1001_3-218773.html

court documents in the case of Comes v Microsoft.