Inside the Microsoft War Room
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| Help wanted: Anyone want a job as a patent litigator at the world's
| biggest software company?
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| Microsoft became a patent powerhouse only after the Supreme Court's
| 1998 State Street decision legitimized patents on software. The
| company revamped its patenting regime and went from a portfolio of
| less than a dozen patents to more than 5,000 today.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1175850243704
Microsoft software patent lawyers are bigger criminals than marketers who
brainwash the public using deceptful (if not altogether false) marketing.
How do the programmers fit the company? Ask a Microsoft manager:
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| Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business
| security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself
| has pieces missing... "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy
| products. It's not a bad product, but bits and pieces are missing," said
| Edelmann.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm
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