[lug] Microsoft charging fee for each digicam made

[Ferdinand Schmid]

I believe the article mentioned $0.25 per camera sold.  But since this
charge
mainly applies to storing the information on memory chips the license
fee
could get extended to any form of flash type memory.

Ferdinand

--On Friday, December 05, 2003 02:38:11 PM -0700 "Timothy C. Klein"
<teece at silverklein.net> wrote:

> * Ferdinand Schmid (fschmid at archenergy.com) wrote:
>> So now Microsoft starts charging for every digital camera made...
>> Maybe they
>> will also start charging for every hard drive or floppy disk made?
> 
> I hope they charge an arm and a leg, plus maybe a first-born child
> thrown in for good measure.  We may suffer in the short term.  But we
> need the problems of software patents brought to light.
> 
> Nobody will care about them unless is starts costing them money.
> 
> Tim
> 
> PS -> Imagine the unmitigated gall to apply for a *patent* on that POS
> that is known as FAT? And then the out-to-lunch patent examiner that
> gave them the patent.  We need to nip this stuff in the bud -- or
> America will cease to be a place with any software innovation at all.
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