we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Aug 26, 2009 23:42 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
Parent article: Tuxera signs up with Microsoft

When you make a pact with the devil, it always seems like a good idea at the time.

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we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Aug 27, 2009 2:37 UTC (Thu) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link] (2 responses)

Agreed. History has shown us that this will end badly for Tuxera.

we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Aug 27, 2009 4:12 UTC (Thu) by tdwebste (guest, #18154) [Link]

Can I safely use the exFAT driver supplied by Tuxera/Microsoft or do I open
myself and the companies I work for, to patent suits from Microsoft in the
future?

we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Aug 28, 2009 6:09 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

Exactly which history? Could you provide an example of a case where signing agreement with Microsoft ended up badly for the other party?

we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Aug 27, 2009 5:47 UTC (Thu) by dufkaf (guest, #10358) [Link] (1 responses)

My brain throwed internal compiler error when parsing the "As an open source company, we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft." sentence.

we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft

Posted Sep 1, 2009 1:50 UTC (Tue) by no_treble (guest, #49534) [Link]

Agreed. My first thought was, "Oh, no... they drank the kool-aid".