[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Michael Kraemer]

Rob Brown schrieb:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 at 20:38 +0100, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>> So this means he stole DECs IP and got away with it?
>> (where are the IP zealots when they're needed?)
> 
> 
> According to some of the links that NSR gave us, DEC sued Microsoft over 
> this, and won.  Although as also seemed to happen in DEC's suit against 
> Intel, DEC came out on the short end of the settlement.

Only if one presumes that DEC actually wanted to win the lawsuit.
It is more likely that DEC simply wanted to put some
pressure on intel so they could get rid of Alpha.
 From this point of view DEC actually succeeded.