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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 30 August 2003, 15:03

Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: sime on 30 August 2003, 15:03
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 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32561.html)

Sime
Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: bigsleep on 30 August 2003, 18:50
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.
Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: hm_murdock on 31 August 2003, 02:35
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
Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: Laukev7 on 31 August 2003, 03:47
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.
Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: Fett101 on 31 August 2003, 04:28
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)
Title: Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
Post by: mobrien_12 on 31 August 2003, 06:35
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.