Microsoft on indemnification
Microsoft on indemnification
Posted Feb 11, 2005 13:41 UTC (Fri) by vmole (guest, #111)Parent article: Microsoft on indemnification
My googlefoo isn't sufficient to track down a link right now, but wasn't there a case a few years ago where MS licensed a patent for SQL SDK, but didn't license the rights for users of the that SDK? Thus, people developing third part MS SQL apps were in violation, and MS said, oh, that's too bad...
Posted Feb 11, 2005 15:50 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Timeline.
Posted Feb 12, 2005 7:12 UTC (Sat)
by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
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Microsoft on indemnification
The case was in early 2003. On the one hand, this is before MSFT changed its i13n policy to the current one, but on the other hand, the current policy still doesn't cover the combination of the covered software with a non-Microsoft product, data or business process. -- so if you use MSFT web tools to put up a "One-Click" order form, even their new i13n doesn't seem to help.
Microsoft on indemnification