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In a First, Seattle Judge Sets RAND Rate in MS v. Motorola ~pj | 352 comments | Create New Account
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In a First, Seattle Judge Sets RAND Rate in MS v. Motorola ~pj
Authored by: PJ on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 09:49 AM EDT
For many years, folks negotiated. That has
worked out fine, better than a set rate,
in that each negotiation presents different
facts.

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In a First, Seattle Judge Sets RAND Rate in MS v. Motorola ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 03:04 PM EDT
Relevant is that Motorola was actually a founder of the MPEG-LA and was in their
patent pool for MPEG2 and was also included in a preliminary list of founders
for AVC/h.264 in 2003.
That shows Motorola were not adverse to pool rates and also planning to pool
their h.264 patents and therefore likely a pool rate was Always in their mind
(until Android / Google came into the picture).

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In a First, Seattle Judge Sets RAND Rate in MS v. Motorola ~pj
Authored by: eric76 on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 04:04 PM EDT
Regardless of whether or not the price was too high or too low, it is very
totalitarian for the government to arbitrarily determine prices no matter what
the branch of government.

Suppose the government should arbitrarily decide that your maximum pay rate is
$15/hour. Would you call that fair even if that was all you were actually worth
to anyone?

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In a First, Seattle Judge Sets RAND Rate in MS v. Motorola ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 06:21 PM EDT
LOL! I see Groklaw is just as anti-Microsoft and pro-Google as ever. This was
the right ruling and you know it. Microsoft refused to negotiate because
Motorola was trying to extort ungodly sums of money for a few measly essential
patents.

You know it and I know it. So stop the BS. You're every bit as bad as
you claim FOSS to be.

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