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Can I Answer My Phone Without Paying 100,000 Euro? (~$124,000 US)
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Tuesday, March 23 @ 10:49:26 EST
Contributed by laws4everyone
Media Regulation
laws4everyone writes "Lindows CEO Michael Robertson in Michael's Minutes pages of lindows.com describes just how far Microsoft ( and possibly other companies ) are willing to go to destroy their competition including going from country to country filing court cases without disclosing previous rulings until they get a country to provide a favorable ruling.

In addition to questioning Microsoft's tactics, Michael asks, "Can I Answer My Phone Without Paying 100,000 Euro?"(~$124,000US) In addition to tactics, this begs the question of sovereignity, the scope of a country's laws, as well as enforceability..." Whether you like or dislike Lindows, this is a good read about the legal aspects of websites and business.

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(The title ". . . 100,000 Euro" refers to a good hypothetical offered up by Robertson: would an injunction in country X against using the word "Lindows" bar him from saying it in a phone conversation if that call to him was placed from country X?)

UPDATED March 23 10:56 AM: Lindows is asking the courts here in the U.S. to bar Microsoft from pressing these offshore lawsuits. A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. Lindows' motion itself is fascinating reading. Even after a great course in conflict of laws, the idea of an injunction against filing foreign lawsuits is new to me. Aparently, courts do issue such injunctions now and then, even though they see, threaten severe whipsaw from two legal systems comng into head-to-head conflict."

 
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