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| December 23, 2009
Posted on 12/24/2009 1:17:25 AM PST by myknowledge
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To: rabscuttle385
East Texas Patent Trolling.
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posted on
12/24/2009 9:12:50 AM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: myknowledge
The patent affects OpenOffice too, as well as any other word processing program that uses XML.
Using XML to represent a document is obvious to any person ‘skilled in the art’ of computer programming, as the patent lingo goes.
These idiotic combo patents (use A to create B) make practically impossible nowadays to write a non-trivial software application without tripping over a dozen of them. This includes writing freeware for Linux.
I own one of these idiot combo patents: Use SQL to create a user password database. My boss made me apply for it, and I was astonished to see it granted.
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posted on
12/24/2009 9:13:16 AM PST
by
Gideon7
To: myknowledge
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:20:31 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: myknowledge
How are people going to compose their suicide notes now:
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:22:51 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Future Snake Eater
Good God...no bias here, eh? I didn't see any. They are simply saying the little guy prevailed against the most successful company in the world, according to many.
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:24:12 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: myknowledge
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:26:03 AM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: pnh102
Given Microsofts previous actions in such lawsuits, they will most likely buy out the plaintiff. They will pay $290 million and get nothing. Why would i4i sell?
They have now changed the code so as to be in compliance. Why would they buy?
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:33:23 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: myknowledge
OpenOffice.org (a Word type program that is a free download) works just fine for me.
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posted on
12/24/2009 12:09:31 PM PST
by
vox_freedom
(America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
To: -YYZ-
As much pleasure as can be derived from schadenfreude, software patents are just a bad idea. Copyright is sufficient to protect software authors.
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posted on
12/24/2009 12:15:29 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: myknowledge
An interesting side note to this.
I work as an editor for scientific and academic papers. A number of journals do not accept papers in Word 2007 because of coding issues. Authors are directed to save their work in an earlier version of Word before submission.
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posted on
12/24/2009 3:03:34 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: big'ol_freeper
Yeah, Bill Gates and Micro$oft is soooooo eeeevvvvilllll!
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posted on
12/24/2009 3:50:34 PM PST
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: Fresh Wind
FYI, Word 2007 is $229 on the Microsoft website. That's about $700 overpriced. Office 2007 should have been a capital crime for MS.
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posted on
12/24/2009 3:57:04 PM PST
by
meadsjn
(Sarah 2012, or sooner)
To: Yardstick
"Will it open Word 2007 documents?"
The latest release version opens them just fine here. All of the local schools are using OpenOffice, anyway. MS won't be very relevant for much longer, especially with the anti-American economy folding.
Ubuntu Linux is easy to download, install and use, although I only use it sometimes for browsing and reading (*BSD systems here).
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posted on
12/24/2009 4:48:16 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: meadsjn
What really ticks me off about the new OOXML format, is how much larger the files are. It’s really a pain to process the files, compared to a similar file in the old format, if you write programs to process Excel files. In my Java programs, it blows the memory right out of the water when I try to process an Excel file in the new format.
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posted on
12/24/2009 4:52:00 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: rabscuttle385; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Squawk 8888; headsonpikes; AntiKev; Snowyman; ...
Thanks for the ping, rabscuttle 385.
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posted on
12/24/2009 6:14:08 PM PST
by
fanfan
(Why did they bury Barry's past?)
To: fanfan
Rumor is it's being replaced by this product ...
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posted on
12/24/2009 6:16:46 PM PST
by
Scythian
To: familyop
Will they be deleted, too...? Survival of the fittest.
(Hence my current tagline.)
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posted on
12/24/2009 6:44:50 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(It from fit.)
To: familyop
Okay, thanks. I like the Open Office idea but have nagging doubts about compatibility with Word. Like if I sent an Open Office version of an important document, will it be guaranteed to open and render correctly on the other end.
To: Mind-numbed Robot
It smells of “power to the people” ‘60s, leftist nonsense.
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posted on
12/26/2009 6:44:15 AM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
To: Future Snake Eater
It smells of power to the people 60s, leftist nonsense. Perhaps, were one thinking along those lines. I wasn't at the time. I was seeing it differently.
This morning I am seeing it as more of the folly of patenting common sense ideas and coming back years later and saying "Gotcha!" While I am thinking about it I should run out and patent the greeting, "Hello."
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posted on
12/26/2009 10:54:02 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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