Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Posted Nov 9, 2004 21:49 UTC (Tue) by cpm (guest, #3554)
In reply to: Microsoft's protocol license agreement by sab39
Parent article: Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Well, in the end, I think everyone settles, because Microsoft has
very deep pockets, and knows that if a Sun/Novell or whatever is
really going to be responsible to its stockholders, it's going to
take the money, rather than spend every last nickle in a vain
hope that it will live long enough to collect a judgement.

MS can, and will tie things up until it get terms it can live with,
and no one has pocket deep enough to test MS in the long haul.