TOM Technology News US Eastern Time November 10 this Wednesday, Microsoft, will further expand the scope of intellectual property (IP) protection, covering the current user and old software version. This is aimed to further compete with competitors, making Microsoft products and Linux products.
As of now, most of Microsoft's authorized customers are protected by IP Indemnity. And the above moves indicate that Microsoft should cover all the software used by all users within IP Indemnity Programs. The program is designed to protect users from legal costs and losses when they involve patents or other intellectual property disputes, which mainly cover the four major aspects of software intellectual property disputes: patents, copyrights, secret transactions and trademarks.
The new IP Indemnity program covers all the versions of Microsoft software, including past, currently legal versions, and versions that will be launched in the future, and Windows XP Embedded and Windows CE are not there. Microsoft Intellectual Property Authorized Department, David Kay is not in an interview with EWeek, "Any user used by users is protected by this program, while the old version of the past used, such as DOS, etc. "
Microsoft does this, not only to worry about whether Microsoft will stand on one side when he is suffering from legal disputes, but also a performance of the company wants to distinguish between products and Linux competitors. With the increase in intellectual property disputes, IP Indemnity has become increasingly prominent. Large companies such as HP, Net Micro, Red Hat have launched this plan. This spring, Open Source Risk Management LLC in New York has become the first company specializing in developers and enterprises to carry out intellectual property risk protection. John Loakano, Executive Vice President, Executive Vice President, said the company firmly supports customers, and conducts risk compensation from all parts of the Solaris system, the next step, and further strengthen this work. "In fact, we consider compensating all the software produced by the company. We also reached a patent agreement with Microsoft."
Microsoft's Kair said that in the past, as long as more than 3 months, Microsoft will receive a lot of customer reflection, saying that they are claimed to be claimed to be a Microsoft product IP authorized person. "Good aspect is, many people have not conducted further strong protesters, and the company usually treats it as a cumbersome statement. We will provide IP protection to end users of all kinds of software in the company, and need to take the necessary when they protest Measures. "Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmmer sent an email to its customers, partners and subscribers. In the email, he claims that patent protection is extremely important for customers. "Now, all businesses that support Linux have no IP protection. In fact, open source software companies provide IP protection to users," "
Hewlett-Packard, Net micro-hat has announced to protect the company Linux customers. For example, the "Open Source Assurance Plan" program implemented by the Red Hat is designed to protect customers' investment in Linux to ensure that they continue to use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system without interference. The Websites, which are located in the land, is also launched by Linux Indemnification Program, aimed at protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the SuSe Enterprise Linux client, and to some extent, for companies that protect the IP protection, challenge Linux, to further reduce obstacles, and expand Linux The promotion of the company. In September this year, HP announced that IP protection will be performed on the customer and against illegal use of Linux. The IDC research institution is responsible for the main management of the system software. Al Kellen said that IP protection is very important. The company should ask software dedication to ask the specific scope of copyright protection. Since this year, Microsoft has played multiple lawsuits with Sun, Intertrust Technologies, Linspire, and British mobile phone manufacturer Sendo Holdings PLC, and paid approximately $ 3 billion compensation. Recently, Microsoft and Eolas Technologies hit the lawsuit again, which once again proved the complexity and true nature of IP protection.
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