Microsoft Zapped by Software Patents; Goldfarb (of BayStar) Speaks About Microsoft Alliance
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-12-01 00:58:17 UTC
Modified: 2007-12-01 03:04:14 UTC
As further proof of the unhealthy state of patent law in the United States, consider this new story.
A company that was just awarded more than $140 million from Microsoft in a patent-infringement suit has sued the software giant again, this time for alleged infringements in Windows Vista and Office 2007.
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In April 2006, a jury in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas found that both Microsoft and Autodesk infringed on those patents, ordering Microsoft to pay $115 million to z4 and Autodesk $18 million.
Any BayStar connection to Microsoft, as shown again in this video, must be seen as suspicious. There are also links between BayStar and Acacia, which is the first patent troll to attack Linux. ⬆
Having spent 1.5 years bullying me with patronising letters on behalf of Microsofters, last week they got served a massive bill and, in effect, lost the Hearing
Computing and the Net became a playground for scammers and "bros", like people who "invented" fake currencies and also try to tell us that LLMs spewing out things will have some real value
We already know, based on an HR pattern we saw at IBM and elsewhere, that reallocating roles can be prerequisite for dismissal and those who do so expect many to resign anyway
Right now, like Twitter around the time it was sold to MElon, "open" "hey hi" is a big pile of debt with a lot to pay for that debt (interest payments)