Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

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Xoj on 14 August 2009

chenguo4 said:

TheNino85 said:
Microsoft needs to fight this. I'm sick and tired of these tiny companies getting some obscure patent for something incredibly obvious and being able to extort money out of other companies that actually put out products people use. Especially when it's an industry standard like XML or MP3, and they wait until it's gone into common usage before suing. If someone doesn't make a product almost immediately, their patent should be declared void and left to someone that actually can make the product. Copyright law exists soley to advance the arts and sciences, not "to make people money." Basically claiming you own XML isn't advance the arts and sciences. It's holding them ransom.

Google "Microsoft FAT patent." MS is guilty of the same thing.

seriously.

if it wasn't by them PSN already would game cross game voice chat and a party system.

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Zlejedi on 14 August 2009

Just another stupidity brough to world by American Patent Office.

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Can only be in America!

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SeriousWB said:

Ah, a chance to use this image.

ROFL. Win

4 ≈ One

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thetonestarr on 14 August 2009

On the topic of comics involving plays on Word...

SW-5120-1900-6153

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Phrancheyez on 14 August 2009

Write letterz n shit, yo.

Man, I love that.

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Mummelmann on 26 August 2009

They'll buy them out, it'll cost less than a settlement.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 26 August 2009

Even if they manage to save Word, OOXML is dead anyway. It was a messy and swindling abortion since the beginning, so no big loss.

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