{"id":50,"date":"2007-02-23T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/microsoft-takes-152-billion-hit-in-mp3-patent-case\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:18:27","slug":"microsoft-takes-152-billion-hit-in-mp3-patent-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/microsoft-takes-152-billion-hit-in-mp3-patent-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes $1.52 billion hit in MP3 patent case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"In Seattlepi.com\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/304871_msftalcatel23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In seattlepi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Huge amount, even for Redmond giant.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, this is only first stage, they&#8217;ll appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s always been a strong supporter of software patents in Europe (notably through BSA funding). May be they gonna think twice now.<br \/>\nEven if they can settle the case for a reasonable amount of money, how long before they get a hit they can&#8217;t stand ?<\/p>\n<p>How many more before people understand that software patents turn the world&#8217;s business into a minefield where nobody can master the risks ?<\/p>\n<p>And like with any minefield, everybody gets hurt, everybody loses.<\/p>\n<p><!--1e83070f22e0281c2b93979a3fd6d012--><\/p>\n<p><!--899e1e1fccbe69fd4cfc7cad447d58b8--><\/p>\n<p><!--4068f03ac1d7de8ee6fecb9bc9e25449--><\/p>\n<p><!--d2f4f3f16d502caf2a345a0cf4adbb5a--><\/p>\n<p><!--85b4fd103853e49305626489c44b9a85--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In seattlepi.com A Huge amount, even for Redmond giant. Ok, this is only first stage, they&#8217;ll appeal. Microsoft&#8217;s always been a strong supporter of software <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/microsoft-takes-152-billion-hit-in-mp3-patent-case\/\" title=\"Microsoft takes $1.52 billion hit in MP3 patent case\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}