Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling

[sime]

OK guys,

now we've been busted, lets change IE so we don't have to pay anyone for using their patented software...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32561.html

Sime

[bigsleep]

After reading (most) of the patent, it seems to me like they are trying to patent an Idea.
Bullshit!
However I never did like MS's proprietary method of handling objects (ActiveX), good riddence.

[hm_murdock]

any attempt to patent an idea is UNHOLY (no matter who your deity is) and goes against all human principles.

May whatever god they believe in... HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS

[Laukev7]

I always thought that patents were designed to give credit to the original inventor of an idea and give him a jumpstart to market his product, in which case patenting would have been acceptable. But if the patent grants a total monopoly for a very long time period, as it's the case, then it is indeed evil.

[Fett101]

Yes it is, though nowadays patents are being handed out hand over fist... patents for swinging sideways, and PB&J sandwiches with crimped edges. Give me a break. (John Stossel, signing off)

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
Yes it is, though nowadays patents are being handed out hand over fist... patents for swinging sideways, and PB&J sandwiches with crimped edges. Give me a break. (John Stossel, signing off)

It looks like that for software patents.. but try to patent a REAL thing... it's ridiculous.