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Jim Zemlin at the Linux Foundation has a good reaction piece up today to the news of TomTom's settlement with Microsoft in their patent fight. We covered TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, and the fundamental issues here. Dana Blankenhorn's take on the settlement was that it seems pretty clear the company [TomTom] has surrendered, and Paula Rooney at ZDNet characterizing the settlement as David losing to Goliath. Zemlin sees the result of this dispute as evidence that Microsoft's new openness is not necessarily so open, but there is a silver lining.