To: ButThreeLeftsDo
They claim to own things they don't own, then sue everybody using anything vaguely similar, then ask for license money from the world to not sue them. Basically they were digital extortionists.
Too bad they tried to extort the Nazgul (a newly affectionate term for IBM's legal department).
The execs have a future as carnival geeks.
8 posted on
12/27/2007 10:31:40 AM PST by
Dinsdale
To: Dinsdale; ALOHA RONNIE; Old Sarge; wagglebee; Congressman Billybob
They claim to own things they don't own, then sue everybody using anything vaguely similar, then ask for license money from the world to not sue them. Basically they were digital extortionists.
Sounds a lot like the tactics of Michael Newdow, Rob Sherman and their ACLU cronies!
29 posted on
12/27/2007 1:12:27 PM PST by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
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