John W. Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Feb 21 10:54:45 CST 2003
Yea. The problem with suing MS is they have about 1,000 lawyers that work on their stuff 24/7, with a budget of 200m / year. And your legal budget is??? John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:44 AM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer]theRegister: SQL Server developers face huge royalty bills. How many, how much? And as a consolation prize, I can in turn sue MS for not having disclosed accurate information. sheesh... -Francisco http://rcm.netfirms.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:21 AM Subject: RE: [dba-SQLServer]theRegister: SQL Server developers face huge royalty bills. How many, how much? : According to my reading, YOU are going to have to fork over a lot of money. : : John W. Colby : Colby Consulting : www.ColbyConsulting.com : : -----Original Message----- : From: dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com : [mailto:dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco : H Tapia : Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:54 AM : To: dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com : Subject: [dba-SQLServer]theRegister: SQL Server developers face huge : royalty bills. How many, how much? : : : Wow, : According to this MS is going to have to fork over quite a bunch of : money for patent license problems with Timeline... anyone else following the : story? : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29419.html : : -Francisco : http://rcm.netfirms.com : : : _______________________________________________ : dba-SQLServer mailing list : dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com : http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver : http://www.databaseadvisors.com : : : : : ---------------------------------------------------- : Is email taking over your day? Manage your time with eMailBoss. : Try it free! http://www.eMailBoss.com : _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com ---------------------------------------------------- Is email taking over your day? Manage your time with eMailBoss. Try it free! http://www.eMailBoss.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2564 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/dba-sqlserver/attachments/20030221/d85fd284/attachment.bin>