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erickkoch

macrumors 6502a
Jan 13, 2003
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Kalifornia
I don't think anybody took their threat seriously. Too many cross-licenses from so many different companies using each others patents. If M$ tried to stop Linux and OpenOffice, etc, other companies would band together and gang-rape M$ with countersuits.
 
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