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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Gets Sued over Patents, Troubled by Lawsuit Over Deceptive Marketing

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Gets Sued over Patents, Troubled by Lawsuit Over Deceptive Marketing
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  • Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:39:52 -0500
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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:07:01 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>"Vista Capable" Stickers Causing All Kinds Of Problems For Microsoft
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| Around this time last year, computer manufactures were trying to convince 
>| people not to wait until Vista came out to buy a new computer. To that end 
>| Microsoft devised what was (and still is) considered to be one of the most 
>| confusing marketing campaigns ever.   
>`----
>
>http://consumerist.com/consumer/vista-capable/vista-capable-stickers-causing-all-kinds-of-problems-for-microsoft-328036.php
>http://tinyurl.com/ynoeng

Yea Roy Schestowitz.
 Outside the safe haven of COLA you are at -29 on digg for that one.

Make certain to expand the comments and read them.

Of course over here in COLA it will probably worshiped.





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>Related:
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| 'MS are key sponsors of "Voices For Innovation" aimed at MS customers
>| and designed to put a positive spin on software patents and enlist people
>| to lobby on their behalf.'
>`----
>
>http://aralbalkan.com/939
>
>
>Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
>| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
>| almost any participation by the small business community.
>|
>| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
>| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
>| large corporations and the patent industry.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
>| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
>| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
>| report in any way
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
>| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
>| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
>| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
>`---- 
>
>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
>
>
>A Patent Lie
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his 
>| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how 
>| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, 
>| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete 
>| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will 
>| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of 
>| our profits as they want."
>`----
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
>
>
>And then:
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>Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and 
>| unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local 
>| executive for Sun Microsystems.  
>`----
>
>http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-exec-accuses-Microsoft-of-patent-terrorism-/0,130061733,339280437,00.htm
>
>
>Microsoft, the art of Corporate Terrorism.
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft, no longer the technological leader in the Computer Desktop
>| market, is taking on a terrorist role in its attempt remain in power
>| at all costs. (see the link to the CNN story below)
>| 
>| The tactic is intended to frighten current, and would be, free 
>| software users away from products that Microsoft just can't compete
>| with. It's not a new tactic, but for the first time desperation is
>| beginning to show.
>`----
>
>http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Microsoft_Terrorism
>
>
>Convicted Monopolist Terrorizes Software Industry
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>,----[ Quote ]
>| That headline is designed to grab your attention. Sensationalistic as
>| it may be, it also happens to be true, if what you mean by 'terrorize'
>| is to provoke fear.
>| 
>| If you've been following the presidential race in the United States,
>| you know the present crop of candidates have been exploiting the fear
>| of the American people as they never have before in the history of
>| the country.
>`----
>
>http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/ms_threats.html
>
>
>Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different 
>| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild 
>| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as 
>| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from 
>| universities in Asia."   
>`----
>
>http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
>
>Playing Microsoft Patent Poker 
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con ? convince people 
>| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what 
>| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent 
>| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary 
>| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against 
>| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.     
>| 
>| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the 
>| players.  
>`----
>
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
>
>
>Lawyers: Even Microsoft Confused Over Vista Marketing
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| A Microsoft product manager couldn't correctly explain the "Vista Capable" 
>| marketing slogan, according to recent filings in a lawsuit that claims the 
>| company misled consumers with a prerelease Vista campaign last year.  
>`----
>
>http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139961-pg,1/article.html
>
>
>Excerpts: Latest filings in 'Vista Capable' lawsuit
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| The lawsuit over Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" marketing program has 
>| reached a key juncture. Lawyers for the plaintiffs have formally requested 
>| class-action status for the case, seeking to open it up to many more people, 
>| and Microsoft last week filed its official opposition to that request. The 
>| filings contain some interesting tidbits on both sides.    
>`----
>
>http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/126606.asp?source=rss
>
>
>Judge Says 'Windows Vista Capable' Lawsuit Can Proceed
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| A federal judge has ruled that two consumers can proceed with a lawsuit that 
>| claims Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign was misleading. 
>`----
>
>http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201305528&subSection=All+Stories

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