fun read: B&N responds to m$ suit

[der.hans]

moin moin,

this is a fun read. It's got to be the lawyer version of a smack down.
I've only made it through a third of it thus far, but intend to finish
readhing the whole thing.

I'm glad a corportaion has stood up to the bully.

"Indeed, Microsoft is misusing these patents as part of a scheme to try to
eliminate or marginalize the competition to its own Windows Phone 7 mobile
device operating system posed by the open source AndroidTM operating
system and other open source operating systems. Microsoft's conduct
directly harms both competition for and consumers of eReaders,
smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile electronic devices, and
renders Microsoft's patents unenforceable."

"1. Barnes & Noble is without knowledge or information sufficient to form
a belief as to the truth of the allegations of this paragraph and,
therefore, denies them."

"15. Denied."

"16. Denied."

"17. Denied."

"Further evincing its anticompetitive intent"

Fun, fun, fun :).

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110427052238659

ciao,

der.hans
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