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

[Steve Cohen]

This can't possibly be true, can it?
Is Microsoft really claiming that anyone using their
software to produce anything for profit owes them a
cut?  I find this hard to believe, even for Microsoft.
By this logic, couldn't the manufacturer of legal pads
demand a cut of the sales of every product that was
designed using them?

On the other hand, if it is true, I can't think of a
better advertisement for free software: not only
doesn't it cost anything but it doesn't encumber you
afterward.


--- "Fred A. Miller" <fm@cupserv.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Fred A. Miller
> Systems Administrator
> Cornell Univ. Press Services
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