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    1. 08-12-2009 11:52 PM #1
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      and how we laughed

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...ord-in-US.html

      the last couple of years have not been kind to them
      almost feel sorry


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    2. 08-12-2009 11:57 PM #2
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      I'm starting to feel bad for Microsoft, too. Sure they brought it on themselves, but I still feel the pain.

      I think my sympathy for Microsoft grows along with my hatred for Apple. I'm still stuck in the '80s, where they are the only two kids on the swing set.
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      no, I take it back

      This is payback for suing TomTom over FAT patents in their Linux based GPS devices

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    4. 08-13-2009 12:12 AM #4
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      They'll still find a way to sell it
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      pwned.

      Word is a piece of crap anyway, it doesn't even do truetype.
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      First of all, the verdict makes me happy--maybe unjustifiably so, but happy nevertheless. However, did anyone actually read the article? Either that article's description of the ruling was completely inaccurate (it wasn't written by a techie, judging by the statement that XML is a "kind of programming language") or the ruling was completely unfounded. According to the article, "The ruling covers all Microsoft Word products that can open XML files or DOCX and DOCM documents." That sounds like the ruling wasn't that Microsoft violated i4i's patent on Microsoft's Office Open XML (.docx and friends) but rather on Extensible Markup Language itself. If I'm reading that correctly, the implications (due to this judge's ignorance) are very, very bad for UNIX, free software as a whole, and even the WWW.
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    8. 08-29-2009 07:17 AM #8
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      What a shame! Such a good program too.
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