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Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-to-terms dept.

aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday. At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic.

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  1. Oops - premature - by TrailerTrash · · Score: 5, Funny
    In other news, SCO today filed a lawsuit against Marc Andreesen, charging that the NCSA team used Unix source code in their browser code in Mosaic, and all subsequent versions of all browsers violate SCO's intellectual property.

    When asked for comment on whether Safari was at risk, Apple CEO Steve Jobs replied, "Nah, we offered them a free, unlimited iTunes account in exchange for a perpetual license. They snapped it up."

    All your code are belong to us.
    --- SCO Group

  2. Microsoft / AOL Settlement by codeonezero · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope the settlement is hard cash and not Windows XP licenses ;)

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  3. Re:fist pr0st! by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I may be being extremely stupid here, but why would they use IE over Gecko.

    The topic in #mozilla right now says "...He was later seen walking out of Bill Gates' office pulling up his pants."

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  4. So Bill says... by mrklin · · Score: 3, Funny

    as he takes a billion dollar bill from his wallet: "Got change?"

  5. And how will they pay?? by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    $oftware vouchers??

  6. Re:Over? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    no no, the drinking isn't over till the fat lady's hot.

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  7. Re:browser wars over?! by Davorama · · Score: 4, Funny
    Also frightening, this deal gives AOL seven years to use IE royalty free...

    I find this to be the most interesting and ironic thing about the settlement. Wasn't the big complaint that MS undercut NS by bundling IE into things for free? Now AOL get's that priveledge as part of the settlement...

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