Microsoft, TomTom Settle Patent Infringement Battle

I suppose this outcome was inevitable. MS couldn't afford the bad publicity of an all-out litigation, and would have perhaps risked a ruling that would render all software patents worthless. TomTom was in a worse position though: if they'd lost the battle, MS might have demanded an agreement that wasn't GPL-compatible (see point 7 in GPLv2), and this would have meant the end of TomTom's business - full stop.

So it sounds like now there's a mostly undisclosed agreement, which is a great outcome for MS: they get friendly publicity for being soft on TomTom, but the case is still feeding the FUD on Linux' patent infringements...

This is BS, utter and complete BS. This just allows Microsoft to perpetuate their myths and TomTom gets to violate the GPL without actually disclosing it.

Does anyone have the balls to actually stand up to Microsoft and finally invalidate their patent claims?