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Sendo Accuses MS of Stealing Smartphone IP
Nate B. writes "According this article in The Inquirer, it seems that Sendo, a UK based development house, has filed suit in Texas as of December 23 to recoup monetary damages for IP it claims Microsoft stole. From the article, 'The company's grievance is that after years of working closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows Smartphone 2002, the fruits of their endeavours were handed straight over to HTC, which manufactures the SPV handset for Orange.' The story also includes this cute footnote, 'When Sendo announced it was to receive funding from Microsoft, I and some other British journalists asked Sendo's Hugh Brogan at the press briefing, in the London Waldorf, whether he wasn't afraid that the company might just take its information and then dump his firm. He claimed then there was no possibility of that.'" Seems there was more to this story than originally thought.
"We're still looking over the contract to see the ramifications of the "we owe you nothing" clause."
Microsoft officials declined to comment at press time.
Are you on drug(s)?!! Why not?
1) Make deal with Microsoft. 2) Get screwed by Microsoft. 3) ??? 4) Profit!
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
film at 11
Why don't we just have a weekly "screwed by M$ this week" special, like the slashback? Would help condense a lot of stories, ranting and general anti-M$ flaming into a few places.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
the other night I had a problem with my routers IP... I called tech support and they had me /release and /renew it.
maybe that would help.
((covers ears so as to not hear 1,000,000 geeks groan at once for such bad geek humor))
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
1) Bash Microsoft
2) ???
3) Karma!
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
Sendo should have protected their intellectual property using Digital Rights Management technology. If only they had set the "Do not share with low-cost manufacturers" flag.
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Yes, they did a lot more than "communicate" with Sendo. I'm not terribly familiar with the details of this issue as opposed to the issue I commented on: Mono. You'll note that I haven't posted with regard to Sendo. I have little use for internet cell phones and such nonsense.
.NET or the ECMA groups have been very friendly, and very nice to answer our questions, or clarify part of the specification for us.
.NET and are willing to help make the ECMA spec more accurate for this purpose.
The rest of this post is cut&paste from the Mono FAQ. Maybe if you inform yourself of a few facts before posting you won't seem like such a zealous idiot. I'm not posting to convince people like you that Microsoft is a fantastic social force. I'm posting to provide a little bit of reality to these discussions. It just so happens that the MS topics are so often the ones in the worst need of a reality check.
Question 35: Is Microsoft helping Ximian with this project?
There is no high level communication between Ximian and Microsoft at this point, but engineers who work on
Microsoft is interested in other implementations of
Ximian was also invited to participate in the ECMA committee meetings for C# and the CLI.
Question 36: Is Microsoft or Corel paying Ximian to do this?
No.
Question 37: Do you fear that Microsoft will change the spec and render Mono useless?
No. Microsoft proved with the CLI and the C# language that it was possible to create a powerful foundation for many languages to inter-operate. We will always have that.
Even if changes happened in the platform which were undocumented, the existing platform would a value on its own.
Well, since most slashdotters don't believe in intellectual property, they should obviously side with microsoft.
Reason, free market capitalism, and individualism
Yeah, it really bugs me how people are jealous of Microsoft's success and try to take them down with lawsuits. It's just like how the government was jealous of John Gotti's success so they put him in jail because of some silly "laws" that he broke.
You're talking about Oracle?