-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "...every Microsoft customer, including ISVs, VARs, and corporate end users, who wished to customize SQL Server by adding code or product to meet the specific needs of users would have been required to purchase a license from Timeline to do so. Given the basic design and intended purpose and use of SQL Server ... the potential economic benefit to Timeline would have been staggering. ...(That economic benefit would be) from the future sale of licenses to essentially all of Microsoft's SQL Server customers." In confirming Timeline's contract interpretation, the Court of Appeals did not change the Superior Court's finding that the "potential economic benefit to Timeline would have been staggering." The Court of Appeals did note that, for whatever reason, Microsoft now finds the "...agreement is not commercially reasonable...". But the court rightly pointed out "...it is not the duty of the courts to correct what may be bad bargains, but to enforce an agreement as written." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29419.html - -- If you listen on a quiet nite you, can hear the sound of a Windows 2000 Server reboot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Vo1Xrnzt99/TR+cRAkcsAKDkg/aLYqpmzsuMMx1A1bLC94j8FgCgkNRd dLirpc4ehBTjA6OZ7/+LWCM= =0AD6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----