On Monday 06 November 2006 08:16, Rasmus Plewe wrote:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:27:51AM +0100, jdd wrote:
Janne Karhunen a écrit :
Novell didn't say it, but Ballmer did. He claimed MS can sue any other distributor any time.
Microsoft can sue anybody even if there no real infrengement... no individual can afford sue from such a big company
In fact, Miocrosoft can sue anybody at anytime, just as I can visit my lawyer today and sue you. This does of course not neccessarily mean we have a chance of winning, Microsoft and me[0]...
It's very expensive to defend yourself in a lawsuit. Unless the suit is so pathetic that it can be laughed out of court in a week (and even SCO's nonsense hasn't been thrown out yet) you will require a ton of money just to get through the pre-trial phase so you can get to court and defend yourself Smaller companies can't defend themselves against things like that, they're likely to go bankrupt from the legal costs, so they will rather settle out of court immediately, so they at least can survive Generally you don't hear much about it, because it gets settled behind closed doors. But it is, for example, the reason why small web sites close down when big companies wave legal documents A law suit can be an offensive weapon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org