[Am-info] Snipped from "The Chip Outsider" written by Dan Hutcheson, VLSI Research.

[Fred A. Miller]

Snipped from "The Chip Outsider" written by Dan Hutcheson, VLSI Research.

Microsoft has issued a class suit, going after the chip and equipment
industry for violating licenses on its XP software.  The suit argues that
since Microsoft software is used in all chip equipment and that wafer
production is a for-profit use that an additional license fee for each 
wafer
processed should be paid.  Chipmakers are incensed at the license tax of $1
per wafer pass, which would amount to roughly 10% of all processing costs.

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