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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Just prior to launching my investigative report on whether Microsoft and IBM were plotting to take over the Internet, I received a phone call from my colleague and fellow columnist David Coursey asking me if I had forgotten to take my daily medication. He had good reason to wonder whether I had lost my mind. I'll be the first one to admit that the idea that two companies--even ones as big as Microsoft and IBM--could conspire take over the Internet on the basis of software patents and royalties is, well, "out there." Casting further doubt upon my theory was Coursey's subsequent interview with Microsoft Platform Strategy Group General Manager Charles Fitzgerald, who said "While this may be disappointing to some conspiracy theorists, Microsoft has absolutely no ambition, plan, or desire to collect a royalty on Internet traffic." Fitzgerald went on to say, "Burdening the underlying standards with additional costs would both undermine this strategy and fly in the face of our business strategy of delivering high-volume, low-cost software." | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/26/2002 11:54:58 PM |
| Exhibit #192102809B why ZDNet should not be trusted as a "news" source. |
| #2 By 2459 (66.25.124.8) at 5/27/2002 12:27:52 AM |
| Not to mention their love of misleading and/or controversial headlines. |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 5/27/2002 6:14:46 PM |
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#7 - Allchin appears to have taken a very non-commital stance to the answer. "We may or may not, we don't know and we're not going to say right now." It's quite clear that he simply doesn't want anything said on the record which may come back later as contradictory.
I honestly don't believe that Microsoft has any intention to charge royalties for their work in basic SOAP interoperability. I don't think Microsoft owns enough of the standard to do that anyway. But they may have technologies that deal with advanced implementation issues that they might charge for, who knows. Will it be a royalty per transaction? Doubtful. |
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