Sabtu, 28 Februari 2004

Microsoft Drops Anti-Patent Litigation Clause

The BBC reports that Microsoft is to bit a controversial clause inwards its licensing agreements inwards the wake of a raid on its Tokyo offices past times the Japanese fair trading authorities. The Fair Trade Commission had said that the contract term, which stopped hardware manufacturers wanting to pre-install Windows on to their computers from challenging whatsoever of Microsoft’s patents, was unfair together with restrictive. Nonetheless, Microsoft insists that the clause remains lawful nether Japanese, American together with European Union constabulary together with has been removed only for “customer satisfaction reasons”.

welcomes Microsoft’s decision, though he notes that presumably the legality of the clause volition non straightaway hold out tested. He besides wonders if Microsoft volition extend its novel policy to the European Union together with US.

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