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Story: Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Posted by: Kinney (Thursday 28 July 2005, 12:30 AM)
Microsoft can patent smilies? Oh, I forgot. Microsoft can do anything because the only thing anyone cares about in the world is money and Microsoft has it out the ass.
Hn. Next thing you know they'll just stop pretending to respect laws and outright declare themselves overlords. And patent that title.
That is, of course, after they have patented "Multi-Participant Interface Relay Chat" tech-no-logy and set fire to the AIM, mIRC, digichat, Yahoo, etc. HQs. Then they'll pull a Yahoo and charge $12.95 for the service, and make telephones obsolete. Then they will patent email, burn down the remaining email services' HQs, and make letter writing obsolete. Under Microsoft, our children will not know what to do with their hands aside from type. A deaf child will type what she wants to say rather than sign it or write it. A blind child...well, there won't be any blind children. In order to cope with the technology, our eyes and hands at least will be replaced with very advanced robotic parts that never wear out. People will only leave their houses to go on vacation, and even then the popularity of that will decline, as there will be nothing to do that they couldn't do at home.
There is a name given to the year in which this will happen, and that name is...Two Thousand and Fifteen at the earliest.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
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That language parsing patent's only technical aspe... Trevor Simms -
Perhaps Microsoft should apply for copyright... Dave Stover -
Microsoft did think the internet would grow to wha... robobright
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This is the kind of shit I want to keep out of Eur... Samuel,UK
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Well said, Samuel,UK
wasn't there somthing ab... JhonSmith
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Microsoft is dead. Software Patents are dead. The... Still Balates
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Screw Microsoft. Actions like these are why the te... Joey A.
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I wondered how this differed from what a lot of op... Richard
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The item you link to is a patent application, not... Anonymous
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What's next? Microsoft attempts to patent fonts an... Last Angelman
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that sort of shit gives me a microsofton! kapster
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I think Microsoft is lacking talent, thats why the... Anonymous
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A true technical innovation (not)
At first I thoug... Anonymous
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PRIOR ART -- what Microsoft is patenting has alrea... Randolf Richardson
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If microsolf truly does patent this, I hope that a... Anonymous
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... for me just another very good reason to defina... Lothar Velling
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Dont the patents office have some form of prosecut... Tony
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Is it April 1 ? John Sims
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Huh, say what? If a technique has been used "widel... Michiel NL
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Hey, I think I'll just patent the alphabet and mak... Anonymous
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Of course as usual the article writer and anti-M$... Jason M. Knight
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The primary claim for the patent application... Ingrid Marson
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The first claim must be read as a whole.... Tom Olszewski -
The problem is the US patent laws. They are simply... Beast
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A couple of points regarding the article post... Lonnie E. Holder
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Another commentor stated that pharmaceutical... Lonnie E. Holder
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I agree with Microsoft !!!! Apple sucks Anonymous
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Microsoft can patent smilies? Oh, I forgot. Micros... Kinney -
I think it's crazy, trying to own everything. Inte... Anonymous
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so patent for using FONTS will be next...
after al... Dustie
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Wtf, those guys are gonna make us change the names... Adam
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This has been up for consideration for a year and... Nik
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Gee. I can include whatever image in whatever mes... Arthur B.
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hahahahahahahhahahahahaahahaha omg...
this will in... d34d
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One of my forefathers invented the kiss and fart.... Ken Davies
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SH**! I just realised that Microsoft may be able t... Ken Davies
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Can't blame them for doing something that the gove... Peter Ritchie
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It seems that people are continuing to miss t... Lonnie E. Holder
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Microsoft,
please please don't ty this.
Yahoo use... Anonymous
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Well back in 1968 I did create a 'Smiley Face' bad... Chris Dunne
