The patent tax [LWN.net]

The patent tax

Posted Apr 19, 2007 3:33 UTC (Thu) by dthurston (guest, #4603)
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SFLC seems to be assuming that Microsoft's only source of revenue is Windows licenses, which is certainly false.

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Posted Apr 19, 2007 7:03 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, but on the other hand they summed up the patent suits against Windows and not against Microsoft other sources of income such as MSSQL etc, if I read the press release correctly.

The patent tax

Posted Apr 26, 2007 11:39 UTC (Thu) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link]

OTOH, while they talk about possible "undisclosed" settlements against Microsoft, they make no mention of any settlements in the other direction (i.e., Microsoft suing someone else and winning). Since they don't even suggest the idea, even if only to dismiss it, this "calculation" seems like useless BS to me.