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Japanese FTC Warns Microsoft

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the firing-back-at-redmond dept.

ChibiOne writes "The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has ordered Microsoft to cut a restrictive contract clause, designed to protect the software giant from patent-related lawsuits by PC manufacturers that sell products using Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Under such provision, Japanese makers would be unable to sue Microsoft even if the software giant's technologies are deemed to violate their patents. The Japan Times Online has the scoop."

2 of 204 comments (clear)

  1. Oh well... by Kujah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... now Microsoft will just have to buy out the pre-existing patent holders, just like in the old days

  2. This a joke right? by utdpenguin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The FTC warns micrrosoft . . . . IN JAPAN

    Or does life now imitate slashdot?

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    In Soviet Russia you dant have to put up with these crappy jokes