So TomTom has decided to not wage this war that they most likely never wanted from the start. Instead they decided to settle. The most interesting part is Microsoft is paying nothing (even though TomTom had counter-sued) and TomTom is looking to drop the parts of its product that violate the GPL to avoid running into problems with licensing. Now what does this mean? Well first it proves that nobody really is going to stand up to Micrsoft when push comes to shove. The bigger issue here is what has the GPL done to TomTom? I believe in this situation that TomTom is quite easily being harmed by the restrictive nature of the GPL license. If this means that TomTom can no longer use the FAT file system will they lose the competitive advantage? I don’t think its safe to say that using open source is a safe way to make something low cost really easily. TomTom is learning the hard way this and hopefully more will realize that the GPL is a bad license. I personally will once again state the fact I personally favor the BSD style licenses.
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