Yet another Microsoft patent

[Laukev7]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99

Next thing you'll hear they're going to patent the human body.

[solarismka]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99

Next thing you'll hear they're going to patent the human body.

Hay, man don't give em any ideas!  They just might!  

[Laukev7]

Now they patent group buttons. Wasn't that ripped off from KDE?   :rolleyes:  

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/02/0027244.shtml?tid=109&tid=155&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=201&tid=99

[ July 02, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[zolo]

Slightly off topic..

Aparently Harley Davidson have a patent on the noise their motorcylces make.

I think I must have fallen into Wonderland somehow   :confused:  

zooloo

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by zolo:
Slightly off topic..

Aparently Harley Davidson have a patent on the noise their motorcylces make.

I think I must have fallen into Wonderland somehow    :confused:  

zooloo

No I think you have your facts mixed up.  

Harley Davidson tried to Copyyright the sound of their motorcycles.  They didn't get away with it.

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Now they patent group buttons. Wasn't that ripped off from KDE?    :rolleyes:

It was introduced in KDE 2.2, released 9/2001 (before XP).  Microsoft filed for the patent in 2000.  According to a Slashdot poster, BeOS had this in 1999.