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Microsoft vs. Burst.com

Posted by michael on from the burst-of-energy dept.

rocketjam writes "Robert X. Cringley has an interesting story on one of Microsoft's many little-known legal cases. Burst.com is suing Microsoft, claiming MS negotiated in bad faith for over a year before stealing Burst's patented technology for increasing the efficiency of video and audio streaming. After Microsoft submitted all emails associated with the their dealings with Burst to the court, Burst's lawyers discovered a 35-week gap of missing mail during a critical portion of the negotiations. When the judge learned the Sun vs. Microsoft antitrust case had revealed that MS keeps backups of all emails on over 100,000 tapes stored offsite, he ordered them to come up with the missing messages."

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  1. i prolly missed fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for about the third time today.

    damn it.

  2. Bite my by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shiny metal ass!

  3. Re:I don't believe it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What are you talking about? I just purchased this great new WindowsXP OS(yes, that's right Xtra-P-O-S). This is chock full of all sorts of innovative design copies. Many things that were nice about the MAC 10 years ago, still aren't there, but the instability we've all come to expect and indeed, demand from Microsoft products is there. So saying that legal maneuvering is all they're up to is hogwash. They're also still peddling crappy unstable operating systems that look pretty.

    WindowsXP, for those who think Win2k is 2Damned stable.

  4. Anyone get the title of that bus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft vs. Brattwurst?

    Ever since I read that last slashdot dylsexia article, those trolls ripped my brain another asshole I can't feel nor touch but compelled to believe I realy have another.

  5. Share the love... by bigattichouse · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pringle-Can_20Wi-fi _20Emergency_20Networks

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  6. Re:Amazing by IM6100 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but they're probably better at keeping backups of email than the *snicker* Clinton White House. heh.

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  7. Re:I don't believe it by randyest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No one is denying the companies talked. What you will find in those letters is a sort of dissemblance I would believe.

    Huh? (This is not grammar nazi mod material, I'm truly baffled as to what you mean.)

    The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the Dictionary search box to the right.

    Suggestions for dissemblance:

    1. dissemblers
    2. dissembling
    3. disassembles
    4. dissembled
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    6. disemboweled
    7. disembowelled
    8. dissembler
    9. disembowels
    10. disassemble

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