Re: Microsoft going after Linux?

[Thufir Hawat]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:00:07 +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

> Doctor Smith <iaintgotnostinkinemail@ols.net> wrote:
>> They will be utterly crushed into the ground.
> 
> Who? Tomtom?
> In europe? (I presume as they're a european company, that's where the
> trial will be held...?)
> 
> If not, tomtom could just utterly ignore anything microsoft says.
> They're out of their jurisdiction. American laws do not apply.
> 
> Europe still holds software patents as extremely dubious if not illegal.
> A few have slipped through but they've by no means been accepted like
> they have in america.


Err, cannot Microsoft be sued by the EC in europe?  Of course, it's the 
European company which is sued.


-Thufir