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InCREDibly Good Point!
Until you brought that up Dan, I was against MS in this instance because the master disks and the code on them IMHO are the same as sending parts overseas for assembly--i.e. assemble the code and you have working product. But since the product is the license and not the software itself...hmmm.

I guess an analogy would be shipping parts overseas to assemble a...patent-infringing sauna. One sauna is built, then people are charged 5 bobos a pop to use the device. 8200 people end up using the IR sauna. Then the lawyers find out about it, the courts get involved...but how much is the US company liable for? The one instance of the actual, infringing device...or each time someone is charged for the use of it?

I have to say it, but in this case (I'm cringing here) MS has a point.
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Well, either way the outcome  Boot_Agnostic | 02/21/07
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And once again....  SpikeyMike | 02/21/07
In good company  BruceWheelock@... | 02/21/07
Umm...  rapson | 02/21/07
MS shouldn?t talk  Par-Pro | 02/21/07
no culture  BregS | 02/23/07
crooked American patent laws  dirtfarmer | 02/21/07
You are so right  Too Old For IT | 02/21/07
And while we're at it...  macbill | 02/21/07
What a wonderful idea!  Linux User 147560 | 02/21/07
oil slick  shraven | 02/21/07
You're right...  Linux User 147560 | 02/21/07
Correct oh my yes  Boot_Agnostic | 02/22/07
Once again  xuniL_z | 02/21/07
Hold on there cowboy.....  seosamh_z | 02/21/07
say again?  shraven | 02/21/07
I agree, The Brits are thieves  John Zern | 02/21/07
Nice try dirtyfarmer  John Zern | 02/21/07
Not what he said.  shraven | 02/21/07
What a closed mind  Par-Pro | 02/21/07
France?  cmjrees | 02/22/07
Patent law in re: software...  Raymond Danner | 02/21/07
THE SUPREME COURT WILL HAVE A PATENT SEARCH HAY DAY  BALTHOR | 02/21/07
What *is* the product?  handydan918 | 02/21/07
Man! A can of worms...  I am Gorby | 02/21/07
InCREDibly Good Point!  TechinMN | 02/23/07
Patens and DRM  wizardb@... | 02/21/07
huh?  zoroaster | 02/21/07
AT&T's patent..  whoop_123 | 02/21/07
Thanks for the blueprint!  spinella@... | 02/21/07
Software ownership  Stovies | 02/21/07
MS shouldn?t talk  Par-Pro | 02/21/07
No culture (as many trolls)  BregS | 02/23/07
You need to know what you talk about  Par-Pro | 02/23/07
your a little upside down....  whoop_123 | 02/22/07
I see Three different issues here  DonD01 | 02/22/07

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