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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by bad_user on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:34AM (#690992)
You don't have to trust Microsoft. If trust was required for collaboration, contracts would've been useless.

You can trust the legal system though ... what you're looking for it's called "estoppel": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel

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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by gtufano on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @05:41AM (#691205)
Interesting, but I don't think that this concept applies to the "civil law" countries.
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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by spitfire on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:43AM (#691001)
You sir, have balls of brass.

I am not a risk taker and will follow after you succeed.

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