Ballmer quote says it all

Ballmer quote says it all

Posted Feb 22, 2008 14:33 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
Parent article: Microsoft announces changes to promote interoperability

STEVE BALLMER: Patents will be, not freely, will be available.

BRAD SMITH: Readily available.

STEVE BALLMER: Readily available for the right fee. The basic economic analysis that you should go through sort of goes like this. We have valuable intellectual property in our patents, we will continue to view that as valuable intellectual property in all forms, and we will monetize from all users of that, not all developers, but for all users of that patented technology, all commercial developers, and all commercial users of that patented technology.

I put this in my blog: MS patents make a no-op of their latest interop announcement

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