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Offline Tac

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Judge rules Microsoft cannot sell WORD anymore. /laugh
« on: December 22, 2009, 01:38:35 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_microsoft_patent


MS who so easily sues others for imagined patent violations now got bitten back. Poetic irony.
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Re: Judge rules Microsoft cannot sell WORD anymore. /laugh
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 02:58:03 PM »
What exactly is copyrighted? The name? Or the program in general?
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Re: Judge rules Microsoft cannot sell WORD anymore. /laugh
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 03:07:18 PM »
The XML editor was engineered from one that was released as an add-in for Word by another company.

So what's going to end up happening is Microsoft is probably just going to shell out a back-dated "license fee" to use it and not change a thing.
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Re: Judge rules Microsoft cannot sell WORD anymore. /laugh
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 03:49:05 PM »
You think Microsoft is going to let a little thing like a federal court stand in their way?  Pft.
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Re: Judge rules Microsoft cannot sell WORD anymore. /laugh
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 05:53:58 PM »
Microsoft is going to use their perk points and buy controlling stock in that little company.
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