Symantec sticks Microsoft with law suit...

Trying to halt Vista...

Published on May 19, 2006 By RPGFX In Microsoft

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An aritcle on www.pcworld.com talks about Symantec suing Mircosoft to stop development of Vista...

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Double Zero

on May 21, 2006

I bet Microsoft loses again. They steal and then pay.

Isnt that odd though, one of the biggest cry-babies about piracy founded the company on it..LoL..

Personally I hope MS wins this one though, Symantec has caused me more headaches than I can count, I would have rather dealt with the worms and Virii, LoL.

Robert Grenader

on May 21, 2006

Just another case of a company seeing its market share dissappear or who cannot compete with Microsoft. Boo F-ing Hoo.

Adamness

on May 21, 2006

Aw, don't be so hard on Symantec. It's much easier for them to sue than create a product that, you know, works.

schekker

on May 21, 2006

So much for justice, sight. On the face of it, Symantec has a legimate complaint.
Whether it will hold is up to the courts, but Symantec is defending its businesses here, it is not trolling or a phishing expedition. And about all I hear here is 'I hope they loose because their products suck'. Well, if that is the new rule for justice, I know some more companies which should be sued, just because I don't like them

Note that the area Symantec is sueing about its storage technology, not its anti virus business, and that they have been in negotations with Microsoft for more than a year about it before sueing.
So I hope that the rightful one will win here, whether it'll be Microsoft or Symantec. And I hope their lawyer bills will go through the roof

starkers

on May 21, 2006

Note that the area Symantec is sueing about its storage technology, not its anti virus business,

That may be so, but their premise is to stop Vista reaching the shelves....in essence to protect their security business because they can't compete technologically with the features in Vista. In other words, can't beat 'em with better products/business practices, so we'll throw a spanner in the works and take 'em to court.

I haven't been fortunate enough to have played with the Vista beta's, and it may have had its teething problems, but it seems to be a step in the right direction for OSes and I certainly hope Symantec's claim against MS goes down the crapper....along with their crappy 'so-called' security products.

sa33od

on May 21, 2006

...but their premise is to stop Vista reaching the shelves...

Exactly! If Symantec is really "defending" their so called businesses, then why are they asking the court of law to immediately stop the development of Windows Vista?!! Stop the development of a whole OS that 2 billion people around the world are waiting for!!! Can't they just ask the court to "warn" Microsoft not to produce its final product with that technology on it? Can't they just warn Microsoft it self to remove that technology? Oh no, Symantec has to run around like kids and go to mama or papa to tell on Microsoft, Just like a scared kid.

See schekker, in business world everything has a different & hidden meaning, when a big company such as Symantec starts such move, it is so clear that they are scared of Windows Vista new competition, in other words, if the Windows vista has enough security, then no one will buy the symantec products, which means the end of symantec on PC's.

And by the way, the Symantec storage technology that they are talking about is one that has to do 99% with virus detection and deletion; a technology that Symantec has been using it wrong all the time, which explains the leading of other anti-virus and storage management products over any symantec product.

A company such as symantec dose not care about if its technology is stolen or not; what they want is not to see any other company (especially Microsoft) become better than them in security and storage sector. I don't want to talk about the Symantec products as I do not use them anymore, but Symantec as a company who is leading the world (at least theoretically) must get scared from the giant Microsoft coming into the line of there expertise.

After this act, I find symentec very funny and unrealiable compney. what's next? sue MAC for not having enough viruses! haha.

starkers

on May 22, 2006

After this act, I find symentec very funny and unrealiable compney. what's next? sue MAC for not having enough viruses! haha

Please....don't go giving them ideas! If their suit against MS fails, that might be their next step....if not Moby Dick, the minnow will do.

George Rogers Jr

on May 22, 2006

Please....don't go giving them ideas! If their suit against MS fails, that might be their next step....if not Moby Dick, the minnow will do.

Sir starkers,.....

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Adamness

on May 22, 2006

If this was such a big problem, why did Veritas not sue Microsoft before they were bought?

As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if Symantec bought Veritas so they'd have some type of excuse to sue Microsoft.

NightTrainthedark

on May 22, 2006

If time is money..Symantec owes me big time. Anyone wanna start a class action suit against em for time lost?

starkers

on May 22, 2006

If this was such a big problem, why did Veritas not sue Microsoft before they were bought?

As I read it, Microsoft & Veritas had a mutual agreement about the sharing of certain technologies.

I wouldn't be surprised if Symantec bought Veritas so they'd have some type of excuse to sue Microsoft.

It wouldn't surprise me either....Symantec saw the direction MS was taking with security in Vista, became scared and saw an opprtunity to thwart the project with claims of illegal intellectual property use. Had Symantec actually created it, I could see some legitemacy to their claim, but seeing as it was created prior to the purchase of Veritas, and MS's existing agreement, I hope the suit fails miserably, at enormous cost to Symantec.

If time is money..Symantec owes me big time. Anyone wanna start a class action suit against em for time lost?

Haven't got the money to start it, but I'd jump on the bandwagon to help increase that enormous cost

seldomseen

on May 23, 2006

[edited due to comments about Symantec}

starkers

on May 23, 2006

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer is confident that Symantec's suit will not delay Vista.....http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6074778.html.

Certainly hope not....MS delays to release a better OS is one thing, but due to Symantec's sniveling would be unacceptable.

Jafo

on May 23, 2006

To be fair, clearly there are people out there that are totally happy with Symantec and their products......

There are also Martians....

Fairies....

Good dietary reasons NOT to nuke Macdonalds.....

Dr Guy

on May 23, 2006

....MS delays to release a better OS is one thing, but due to Symantec's sniveling would be unacceptable.

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