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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: smokey on 14 November 2002, 08:20

Title: Fritz chip used for program licensing?
Post by: smokey on 14 November 2002, 08:20
According to m$ and everyone else working on the fritz chip it will not be used for program licensing however two people in the US found out ever way m$ and everyone else can use it to license apps and patented them all.

So now it would be illegal for m$ to use the fritz chip to license software  (http://smile.gif)

btw. Im searching for the article I read this from
Title: Fritz chip used for program licensing?
Post by: voidmain on 14 November 2002, 08:37
quote:
Originally posted by smokey mcp0t / b0b:
According to m$ and everyone else working on the fritz chip it will not be used for program licensing however two people in the US found out ever way m$ and everyone else can use it to license apps and patented them all.

So now it would be illegal for m$ to use the fritz chip to license software   (http://smile.gif)  

btw. Im searching for the article I read this from


You forgot that Microsoft has a lot of money. And usually people who rush to patents are only looking to get rich. Microsoft would surely buy out the patents. As you know they bought GL patents and many other video patents from SGI recently. They do this all the time.
Title: Fritz chip used for program licensing?
Post by: smokey on 14 November 2002, 21:51
Actually the reason why they patented this is to prevent m$ and others from doing that.
Title: Fritz chip used for program licensing?
Post by: mobrien_12 on 14 November 2002, 15:04
Actually, if this is all true, that would be beautiful. I hope you can find the article.