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Patent Troll/Alley Thug Pleased With Salesforce.com Patent Suit Settlement

in News on August 4, 2010 at 1:31 pm PT

All that bluster and bravado and in the end, Salesforce.com chose to settle its patent dispute with Microsoft rather than go to the mattresses. On Wednesday afternoon the two companies said they had resolved the patent-infringement battle that prompted Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff to brand Microsoft a “patent troll” and “alley thug.”

QOTD

They hate everybody and we love everybody, and that’s pretty much the difference. We even love Microsoft. … This is our core strategy, love.”

– Mark Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO and high priest of love