Given Microsoft’s previous actions in such lawsuits, they will most likely buy out the plaintiff.
Damn near all of MS’s early “innovations” were the theft of some other companies work, Gates didn’t have a contract with the actual owner of DOS when he signed the contract with IBM ,, DR-DOS is the most recognizable theft however at around the time .. MS-EXCEL was a direct clone of “visiCALC” ,, of course at the time it was such a simple program and an obvious concept the IBMer that invented it didn’t patent it. I don’t remember whose defrag program MS stole and then paid off the owner after they broke him.
I have no problem ignoring MS’s claims to ownership.
They will pay $290 million and get nothing. Why would i4i sell?
They have now changed the code so as to be in compliance. Why would they buy?