More on Intellectual Property

Microsoft is great at marketing their products. They're even greater at marketing others' products as their own. This is the case today according to a PC World article, where Symantec is accusing the Redmond Giant of stealing their intellectual property.

Turns out that Microsoft had bought the rights from Veritas, a company that Symantec acquired last year, to use the products in its Windows Services. Microsoft release a statement stating "these claims are unfounded because Microsoft actually purchased intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004." The case here is that Symantec has found themselves in trouble as better and cheaper products have hit the market. However, Symantec does have a leg to stand on here as the 1996 contract prevents Microsoft from developing products that compete with the Veritas software, in this case Veritas is now Symantec, a slight technical violation.

The bottom line is that the courts have seen a lot of this type of cases recently. First it was the RIM saga, then the net neutrality issue, and now this. When are the courts going to put a stop to this. All this battles certainly don't do any good to improve our fallen economy. It simply makes people like me sick to their stomachs. When is enough money enough?