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____/ High Plains Thumper on Friday 21 August 2009 05:44 : \____
> nessuno wrote:
>> <Quote> two years ago, Microsoft filed a patent for clustering
>> phylogenetics methods, which have existed for years, and are
>> currently in use by just about anyone who does evolutionary
>> biology. The filing has been compared to attempting to patent
>> multiplication tables, and has the phylogenetics community on
>> edge. </Quote>
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/microsoft-trying-to-patent-technique-for-studying-evolution.ars
>>
>> Pretty soon you'll have to pay for those multiplication
>> tables. Intellectual Property, you know.
>
> Shows that the company is no more than a patent troll, IMHO.
Microsoft's profitability in software is ending, so it tried moving to hardware
(XBox, Zune) and failed miserably. Now it's trying a new type of product...
not a tangible type. SCO tried this too.
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