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Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle
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Sermo Malifer |
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Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:24:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:02:43 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
> "Thufir Hawat" <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:w6hCl.1223$g%5.66@newsfe23.iad...
>
>
>>> You say that the reason they settled cannot be determined, but it must
>>> be that TomTom had no confidence in winning and were concerned with
>>> minimizing their likely loss.
>>
>> Where's your evidence? It's just guess work and interpretation. The
>> lack of a statement from TomTom is telling. No one has posted
>> firsthand knowledge about what TomTom was thinking.
>>
> Well, you could take some view that was more favorable,
Or you could just support your view.
> but you are just
> whistling past the graveyard, I think, telling yourself that maybe
> things are not as bleak as they appear.
No, he's just observing you have no evidence to support your assertions.
> Maybe TomTom was confident of
> winning their case but their lawyers had planned to go on an extended
> tour of the Holy Lands and wanted the whole thing to just go away before
> they left so that they were not going to be interrupted by having to
> work on the case. Maybe TomTom felt that things were going so bad for
> Microsoft that they owed them a leg up and so considered the settlement
> payments as a gift.
You seem to like to make up stories. That's a lot easier than getting
the facts, isn't it?
> I think it was probably because they knew they were going to lose and it
> was cheaper to make a settlement and take a license.
A Wintroll thinks a Linux company couldn't possibly win against M$!
Somebody alert the news services!
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, (continued)
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/01
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Thufir Hawat, 2009/04/01
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/01
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Thufir Hawat, 2009/04/04
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/04
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Thufir Hawat, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle,
Sermo Malifer <=
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, dr_nikolaus_klepp, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, amicus_curious, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Sermo Malifer, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Rjack, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Tim Smith, 2009/04/04
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Thufir Hawat, 2009/04/06
- Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle, Tim Smith, 2009/04/06