Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word

ZDNet UK ^ | 12 August 2009 | Steven Musil

[ShadowAce]

[exist]

So you mean when I illegally downloaded it I not only illegally stole from Microsoft I stole from i4i?

[DieHard the Hunter]

> So you mean when I illegally downloaded it I not only illegally stole from Microsoft I stole from i4i?

Hmmm... how does that sync with the concept that you cannot steal stolen property?

[Porterville]

XML has been around for what... 15 years?

[absolootezer0]

microsoft can’t sell it.. so they can give it away for free. you did it the right way :)

[rwfromkansas]

Microsoft a crook? :)

Seriously though, XML has been around for awhile.

[papasmurf]

Does this mean I will get a refund for my Office 2007??? Cool, since I only wanted it for OneNote!

[Still Thinking]

So you mean when I illegally downloaded it I not only illegally stole from Microsoft I stole from i4i?

No, Microsoft stole it from i4i, so you were wrong to steal it from Microsoft. It was theirs, they'd stolen it fair and square!

[La Lydia]

The office I work in used to have Corel’s WordPerfect, which I loved. I could do wonders on it. Then they cheaped out and decided to settle for Microsoft Word, which I hate because it is awkward and counter-intuitive. And I’m not real fond of Mac’s word processing, either.

[KoRn]

I guess they’ll have to bundle Notepad with Office to replace Word. The “Standard Edition” will have a button link to Minesweeper on the Toolbar. The “Professional Edition” will have button links to the rest of the MS Games.

[theFIRMbss]

>I only wanted it for OneNote!

When I bought Office,
I'd never even heard of
the OneNote program.

I use OneNote now
everyday, gathering up
bits of everything.

[sionnsar]

SGML since the mid-80s.

[The_Reader_David]

He who lives by the sword proprietary software model dies by the sword proprietary software model.

Microsoft led the charge to have software treated as a device rather than information, subject to patent, rather than copyright, so they get what they deserve.

Personally I think intellectual property law has stayed so far from it Constitutional intent that "piracy" is almost a justified act of civil disobedience, but I have some resentments born of the misbehavior of mathematics publishers.

[max americana]

My Office 2003 works just fine. 2007 is so bloated with crap they actually call it MS Office Space like the movie.

[onedoug]

Damn this judge. Sell it anyway.

[muawiyah]

i4i wouldn't have gotten far with their coding if it hadn't been for the prior work of the HTML standards committee.

So who let them have a patent?

Time to investigate the examiners.

[McGruff]

He who lives by the proprietary software model dies by the proprietary software model.

Apple died?

[muawiyah]

Office 2007 is basically UNUSABLE.