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Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« on: December 22, 2009, 03:02:46 pm »

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Re: Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 03:36:48 pm »
As much as I enjoy setting somebody stick it to Microsoft, software patents are, by and large, retarded. And way too open to trolling.

I'm hoping that as companies like Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Sun, etc get screwed by software patents, they'll start lobbying for reform.

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Re: Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 04:26:12 pm »
Microsoft is going to buy them if they can't get an injunction. (My thoughts)
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Re: Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 04:30:07 pm »
I'm thinking it's more likely that the result of this will be:
a) Microsoft pays them a licensing fee to use it (kinda doubtful), or
b) Microsoft says "fuck it" and just removes/tweaks it enough that they no longer violate it

Either way, everybody loses except the lawyers :)

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Re: Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 04:40:31 pm »
You know, until I heard about this I didn't even know Word had an XML editor....  ::) 
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Re: Permanent Injunction against selling MS Word
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2009, 03:48:45 pm »