Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno spake thusly:
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> Microsoft knew of the patent held by i4i as early as 2001, but
> instead set out to make the Canadian developer's software "obsolete"
> by adding a feature to Word, according to court documents....
A stereotypical example of the Vole's "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
Software patents may be sinister, but they're not nearly as sinister as
Microsoft's gangster methods, so I hope they get well and truly hammered
by this case.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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