Symantec Sues Microsoft to Stop Vista

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Company claims Microsoft is wrongfully using its Veritas storage technology in the next version of Windows.
Symantec has asked a U.S. court to order a halt to the development of Windows Vista, claiming that its rival is wrongfully incorporating Veritas storage technology into its next-generation OS.

Symantec sued Microsoft yesterday, seeking unspecified damages and also asking the court to remove Symantec's storage technology from a variety of Microsoft products, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and the upcoming Vista and "Longhorn" Windows Server products.

"We're asking them to remove the technology, because it belongs to us," a Symantec spokesman said.

The dispute centers around an August 1996 agreement between the two companies that granted Microsoft the right to use Veritas Software's volume management technology in its Windows NT product. Symantec purchased Veritas in a $10.2 billion acquisition that closed last year.

Symantec claims that Microsoft misappropriated its technology and even tricked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office into granting Microsoft patents based on Symantec intellectual property. The security and storage vendor also says that portions of Microsoft's next-generation Vista and "Longhorn" server OSes are based on this misappropriated software.
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so what is symantec trying to do here ???

asking to step back a technology that doesn't belong to them even..

They mere aquired the technology not developed it. All software companies do it, they inherit tech points & develop there own package. It actually seems funny to me when software companies fight over "Stealing" of technology. every single company is same.

just a thought here ---How many of u have seen "Pirates of the Silicon valley ?"
 
no one can win microsoft, even if someone does win by LAW, MS always has a way to CREATE an ALTERNATIVE & roll over the technology.
 
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