Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover

[Bill Lance]

--- Seth Johnson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Bill:
> 
> Heh.
> 
>        3) Universal Data Sructure
> 
>


What do you mean by this, Seth?
 
> Seth
> 
> Bill Lance wrote:
> > 
> > --- Barry Fitzgerald <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > If SOAP becomes patent encumbered we have two
> > > options:
> > >
> > >       1) Fight the patent
> > >
> > That's not to likely to be productive.
> > 
> > >       2) Not use SOAP
> > >
> > > Which is done by the community depends on how
> > > important SOAP becomes.  I
> > > suspect that patent encumbering SOAP will only
> kill
> > > SOAP over time.
> > 
> > If MapPoint is an example of the  pricing, it's
> likely
> > to be a lot quicker than 'over time'.  What amazes
> me
> > about the Hailstorm fiasco is that MS seemed to
> invest
> > so heavily in the model with what, in hind site,
> must
> > have been NO competent market research into it's
> real
> > demand.
> > 
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