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Re: Unpopular argument: Sending tech jobs abroad is good

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From: Steve Pope
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:46
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q@q.com <q@q.com> wrote:

>Let's see...
>They infringed on Stac Electronics' compress algorithms which
>Microsoft incorporated in MS-DOS 6. The courts found Microsoft guilty
>of patent infringement. Microsoft eventually bought Stack Electronics.

Yes, sorta.  The patent infringment was probably there but
not really provable.  What made Microsoft fold was violating
an NDA.

That's how I remember it, anyway...

Steve
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From: Steve Pope <spope33@speedymail.org>
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Subject: Re: Unpopular argument: Sending tech jobs abroad is good
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