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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. well it makes sense by 2057 · · Score: 0, Troll

    if burst.com has a legitimate claim, they should kick the shit out of microsoft. i mean its one thing to have people use a shitty os, but stealing, now that is just plain mean. the only way to kill the giant is to get it when it's hurting.

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  2. Ooops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MS: You're right we forgot those ones, my bad.
    Judge: np

  3. Re:Obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is funny, burst post, burst.com... are the mods asleap?

  4. But in Soviet Russia.... by nathos · · Score: -1, Troll

    stolen video codecs Burst YOU!!

  5. Just renember who the real enemy is by argoff · · Score: 0, Troll

    The real enemy isn't Microsoft, IMHO they are just taking a worthless belief - "intellectual property" to its logical conclusion. Microsoft is the enemy, not because they are Microsoft, but because they have held themselves accountable to upholding and imposing an unjust and false property right.

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    hey guys, i just thought you might like to know that i've just trained my bird to sit on my dick like the penis bird, this is fucking awsome

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

    Oh for fucks sakes you retard: At least pick a credible alternative OS if you're going to piss on Microsoft. That sack of shit Mac software got pre-emptive multitasking recently in the grand scheme of things, and is more limited than your mother's asshole when she tries to take on all your brothers.

  8. Re:I don't believe it by MMaestro · · Score: 0, Troll
    The burst.com side? Seems to me more like a cheap attempt to snag some cash from Microsoft while everyone is attacking it.

    Burst's lawyers discovered a 35-week gap of missing mail during a critical portion of the negotiations.
    I'm sorry, but the lawyers just managed to "discover" a 35-week period gap? According to the article, all the e-mails printed out filled 140 boxes. Now unless they decided to hire a couple hundred interns to sort through all that, or they used very small boxes, I seriously doubt Burst.com didn't plan this.
  9. Soviet Russia is passe by kirbyman001 · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Capitalist America, the software company buys YOU!

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