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| From: | Doug Mentohl |
| Subject: | Re: consider the facts of the Stac case.. |
| Date: | Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:44:05 +0000 |
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amicus_curious wrote:"Well, consider the facts of the Stac case. Stac bought a patent for the compression method that they used and Microsoft bought a similar patent for the one that they implemented in DOS themselves. For convenience to their customers, they made their feature able to read compressed files from Stac as well as their own algorithms, which were non-infringing", fuddie frankentroll
> Nothing new here ..
Microsoft tried for a deal with Stac and couldn't come to terms, so they bought similar technology from DoubleStack and VertiSoft which was eventually found to be infringing on the Stac patents.
Still can't piss straight, as the cited-to articles show, MS cloned STACKER .. twice .. and only then bought a license from VertiSoft ...
That may be getting fucked, but I am sure that Stac enjoyed it.
No, only the folks at MS who invented a term for it BOGU ..
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