To: ShadowAce
Software patents suck, even when it's Microsoft that gets hit by them.
To: antiRepublicrat
I don't know if its so much that software patents or its how they are applied.. If someone does something *really new* that nobody has ever though of (in any way) before a patent is ok. But those occasions are *REALLY* rare and this was clearly not one of them.
9 posted on
01/31/2006 10:52:40 AM PST by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: antiRepublicrat
Software patents suck, even when it's Microsoft that gets hit by them. It will be interesting to see if Carlos Armando proceeds to sue the Microsoft customers who don't want to install the new software. Microsoft may decide not to indemnify them.
31 posted on
01/31/2006 11:34:11 PM PST by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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