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MS-Sun Agreement Leaves Opening For OO.org Suits

Posted by timothy on from the on-what-basis-is-unclear dept.

newentiti writes "We all know Microsoft paid $900,000,000.00 to Sun and they also signed a LIMITED PATENT COVENANT AND STAND-STILL AGREEMENT. The agreement basically states that Microsoft will not sue Sun for any patents for the next 10 years and vice versa. What's really interesting is that according to this story the agreement had a special provision that lets Microsoft sue anybody, including Sun, over OpenOffice.org. I wonder what Microsoft had in mind?"

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  1. Lawsuits ala Lindows by netcrusher88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Microsoft wants to sue them for the "Office" part? Appearently they thought they could sue Lindows for the "indows" part...

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  2. Re:Objective by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?

    Well I think so, Brain, but didn't SCO already patent that way of doing business?

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  3. Re:Change the name by ricotest · · Score: 5, Funny

    IANAL

    With reasoning like that, you should be! I think you could really help SCO's case.