A couple of things happened against Google -

Just weeks after a leading authors’ organization sued Google for copyright infringement, the Association of American Publishers has also filed suit against the search engine giant’s plans to scan and index books for the Internet.

Google Inc. dropped the “Gmail” tag from the logo and new account addresses of its free e-mail service in Britain on Wednesday, bowing to the demands of a small British company that claims the U.S. giant has infringed its trademark.

And on the other hand Microsoft updated their “Shared Source” licenses. Very interesting to see that the the licenses are almost similar to other Open source licenses. This doesn’t mean that Microsoft will release any of its products under these licenses, but that day is not far from the future it seems.

Seems like Google and Microsoft are in the crossing into each others way. Google being sued and Microsoft softening for the Open Source Licesnses.