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Closer to the Novell deal.Closer to the Novell deal.Posted Jun 7, 2007 16:36 UTC (Thu) by DouglasJM (subscriber, #6435)In reply to: Closer to the Novell deal. by AJWM Parent article: Another day another Microsoft patent deal
I would agree with this comment, and take it a bit farther. MS pays a lump sum to get these companies to sign a "Patent" deal where they pay the money back to MS that has been given to them.
So the company that signs the deal gets use of a lump sum of cash, kind of like an interest free loan. MS gets the much more important pay off of being able to say in court, "These patents are valid, we have companies like (Novell, LG... etc) paying us royalties."
To me, just another example of MS using it's market power and cash to slant the game.
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