> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! I was about to say that the purpose of the separation

> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! I was about to say that the purpose of the separation is probably to allow them the possibility to grant patent licenses with one hand (e.g. under the Apache 2.0 license) while suing with the other... but Microsoft Open Technologies being a "wholly-owned subsidiary" actually means (I think) that the license would consider them the same "Legal Entity", so that particular trick wouldn't work.