Summary: Some quick new facts about the TomTom-Microsoft settlement
IT MAY BE TRUE that the TomTom case is just a history lesson despite OIN's response, but a source has just told us privately that "TomTom paid less the half a million EUR to Microsoft because otherwise they have to file it at the Dutch Tax authorities."
Here is a video from last month. It's about patents and Free software, but we could not produce an Ogg version. ⬆
Unregulated industries will lose their credibility as there is a threat of growing perception that they operate outside the law rather than practice law
Or timewasting by aggressive militants who try to silence us [...] People who experience writer's block very often find it depressing (it feels unproductive) and sometimes come to the conclusion that perhaps writing isn't for them
