The PR headline as listed on Yahoo:
"Research In Motion Agrees to Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) Portfolio License"
When I read that it looks to me like we had them backed up against the wall, and they finally relented ("agrees to") because there was no 'good way out'. I doubt we received peanuts, and it may indeed be another "watershed event' as you state.
Three pieces of what appear to be very good news in the last two days; we soldier on.
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