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Story: Microsoft's draft licence, step by step

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it would be an interesting exercise to calculate just what Microsoft thinks the value of these interface specifications are. Having done that, compare the figure to the cost of the entire product - methinks that the interface protocols licencing would be more expensive. If so, is Microsoft guilty of "dumping" the complete product into the EC market?

Just as a point of interest; for those that did not follow the appeal to the Court of First Instance (and why Microsoft lost). Microsoft tried to use the "intellectual Property" & "Trade Secrets" argument to protect the interface details of the API's - the judge asked why they had not been raised these arguments in the original case and summised that, as Microsoft had never exercised a licencing strategy, persued prosecution for use of or, for the reverse engineering of API's, that MS had not asigned them any real materilal value before and, as such, could not expect to do so now.

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