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>>>I guess this will be settled out of court for a nice amount, but if Microsoft doesn't buy out the company, this will have heavy implications on future versions of .net...
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>>If there is any real basis for the suit..Though people seem to like to judge Microsoft guilty of most everything, this hasn't even seen a courtroom yet.
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>Well, i don't think they would have filed the suit if they didn't have solid ground for it, knowing the big gorilla MS is, particularly when it concerns patents...

Just today, in one of the articles linked to one of these news I found that the price of each copy of Windows contains $21.xx of patent lawsuit expenses (the settlements, the fines, the lawyers, other expenses) that Microsoft has to pay every year.

Here, found it: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286776,00.htm