Very nice. It looks like TomTom has the upper hand here, since they don't have to license their patents to Microsoft. It will be easy for TomTom to use a different filesystem, but difficult for Microsoft to use a different navigational algorithm.
Of course, software patents are one of the worst ideas ever, and they need to go away soon. Hopefully silliness like this case will bring us closer to that.
Of course, software patents are one of the worst ideas ever, and they need to go away soon. Hopefully silliness like this case will bring us closer to that.