And it's so wrong
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| tracyanne Dec 23, 2009 4:19 PM EDT |
Given what appears to be the case, I suppose it's something to celebrate. It just feels so wrong celebrating the upholding of a software patent. |
| techiem2 Dec 23, 2009 5:23 PM EDT |
Yes.
The fact that MS did something wrong willingly and got caught and ruled against for it is nice. But the fact that it was a software patent that in all likelyhood shouldn't be valid to begin with... Sadly, as has been mentioned, we likely won't get the pleasure of seeing Word-Free shelves as they stated they will have a fixed version ready by the injunction date (and probably already do). |
| gus3 Dec 23, 2009 5:46 PM EDT |
@ta: It's more of a case of scadenfreude that M$ got a taste of the rules they want to foist on everyone else, but don't want for themselves. They got socked twice: --first, fthey got caught knowingly violating a patent with the intention of gutting i4i's business --second, they were denied their usual tactic of plunking down ca$h in exchange for a settlement, so they can continue with business as usual Besides, for this case, the future (in)validity of the patent is immaterial. If M$ wanted to challenge the patent's validity, they went about it the totally wrong way. |
| tracyanne Dec 23, 2009 6:11 PM EDT |
I think they had no intention of challenging the patents validity. That would have set a precedent, and I'm quite certain Microsoft don't want that sort of thing hanging over them, should they wish to sue someone else over patents. |
| jsusanka Dec 24, 2009 10:50 AM EDT |
maybe this will help in getting their ooxml so called standard withdrawn from ISO. you can't have a standard that has infringed on patents. |
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