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1 posted on 02/22/2007 1:51:41 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Pffft, simply pay for it out of petty cash.


2 posted on 02/22/2007 1:53:59 PM PST by Pox (If it's a Coward you are searching for, you need look no further than the Democrats.)
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To: Sub-Driver

That's a ridiculous award. Recently, the Supreme Court reminded us that the validity of software patents has not yet been tested there. Here's hoping...


3 posted on 02/22/2007 1:56:20 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sub-Driver

They chose the wrong jury.


4 posted on 02/22/2007 1:57:08 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Sub-Driver

Absolutely silly. There is no way that patent was worth anywhere near that. If that patent was worth that, all the patents that go into a computer would be worth millions of trillions of dollars. Pure anti-microsoft bias. The ruling can not stand.


5 posted on 02/22/2007 2:00:10 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Sub-Driver
This reminds me of when Micro$oft tried to steal the Disk Defrag technology from Executive Software over a decade ago.

The one bundled in windows named Disk Defragmenter is a much stripped down version and is a mere 10% of the full commercial version that Executive Software sells.

6 posted on 02/22/2007 2:05:21 PM PST by prophetic
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To: Sub-Driver

Totally unrealistic award there.


7 posted on 02/22/2007 2:40:55 PM PST by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: Sub-Driver

Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789401/posts


8 posted on 02/22/2007 2:46:22 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: ShadowAce

Tech ping.


9 posted on 02/22/2007 5:37:33 PM PST by Salo
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To: Sub-Driver

The original suit was not against MS, it was against PC makers. The frogs are merely trying to "RIAA" the U.S. computer industry.


10 posted on 02/22/2007 6:35:58 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ..

11 posted on 02/23/2007 3:48:41 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Sub-Driver

More here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1789882/posts


12 posted on 02/23/2007 4:01:55 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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