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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: reyfer on February 23, 2007, 04:28:29 AM

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: reyfer on February 23, 2007, 04:28:29 AM

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software company, must pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 billion for using digital music technology without permission, a federal jury said in the largest patent ruling ever. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3OGdoKeH5AU&refer=home)

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: ferrar1 on February 23, 2007, 05:31:25 AM

1.52B !!

crazy. I'll bet it would be reduced to something like 10M +-

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: JFC on February 24, 2007, 01:53:27 AM

So that equals about a week's worth of profits for Gates? :P

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: super_doops on February 24, 2007, 10:43:55 PM

that penalty will be a hit but not big enough to stop the big 'ol microsoft

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: frblckstr1 on February 25, 2007, 08:21:25 AM

^ I think you need to read-up on the article, Alcatel pulled a trick it looks like by using a jury.
Microsoft *was* paying royalties (to fraunhofer) for the mp3 format, Alcatal contented they had an earlier patent.

Title: Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 Billion
Post by: konrad on February 25, 2007, 10:15:02 AM

And it sets a president for making MP3 players illegal unless thy pay their Alcatel-Lucent fees.

Hopefully more players will start supporting non-MP3 codecs as a side effect of this.  For example, how the Cowon units support FLAC.