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Story: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Posted by: Thomas J. Mousseau (Saturday 28 May 2005, 4:07 AM)
The United States Patent office merely takes the position that it is a matter for the courts to decide. A patent is worthless if it can not be defended in the courts. Of couse that would cost some little guy a lot of money. But if that little guy has been supporting Microsoft all these years; to bad and too late.
The cure for spam is to make it uneconomical, like dont buy the stuff. The cure for microsoft is the same.
We should feel sorry for the easy way out slobs (you and me) that bought Microsoft when there were other choices.
A Micro Soft is what you get after an exhaustive session of mankinds favourute activity (well for males definitely). Microsoft is proof that your money in the right hands can fix anything and it is also proof that 95 % of the poulation are asleep, and the developer community is in REM sleep.
At least Gates gives some money away, he knows he can't take it with him. Which is more than can be said for the rest of the commercial/proprietary software industry. Crawl into a hollow log, Microsoft is on the prowl. There are more than two sides to any coin in cyberspace. (sorry about the typos.)
I am mousseau@magama.ca
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Story: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
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Where's the liability for awarding wrong patents? Arthur B. -
there is none
this spells the end for XML Anonymous
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Well, it's not the end of XML for storing obj... Cirilo Bernardo -
XML was born as a particular format for data stora... Anonymous
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It just seems people who review patents at patent... Roderick Klein
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Whatever happened to prior art?
I worked as a pate... Anonymous
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To be fair to the patent office in this case... Wookey
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The link in the article points to the wrong patent... Bill Price
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Thanks for pointing that out Bill. I have up... Ingrid Marson
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The United States Patent office merely takes the p... Thomas J. Mousseau -
I am sorry to disagree, as most people don't... John Washington
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geez louise... they're expecting folks to just see... c r vrij
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isn't a software company supposed to make mon... ivan tonchev
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Look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sxp - isn'... Anonymous
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I worked for Bowstreet. We were serializing commu... Anonymous
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Would this mean that C++ or other programming lang... Anonymous
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At this rate, I soon will not be able to init... S. Johnson
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It's a variable. Could represent anythin... Chris -
I know the US patent system is based on grant firs... Andrew Evans
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