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Microsoft patents a DRM scheme
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| SOFTWARE IMPERIALIST Microsoft has been awarded a patent
| for a distributed DRM system that works over peer-to-peer
| (P2P) networks.
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| Patent number 7,594,275 is entitled, "Digital rights
| management system" and uses encrypted public and private
| keys as the licensing mechanism.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555761/microsoft-patents-drm-scheme
Microsoft likes software patents, unless these are used against
Microsoft in which case Microsoft happily breaks the law it lobbied for.
Microsoft protests $290m Word judgment
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| A federal judge fundamentally misinterpreted a patent
| asserted against Microsoft Word, an error that should
| require a $290m infringement penalty to be overturned,
| attorneys for the software giant argued Wednesday.
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| [...]
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| i4i has claimed that Microsoft deliberately set out to
| destroy its business while publicly proclaiming the two
| were allies. Microsoft's inclusion of custom-XML editing
| in Word from 2003 usurped its own invention and relegated
| its patented technology from a mainstay in the mass market
| to a niche player in the pharmaceutical industry, it has
| said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/microsoft_i4i_patent_hearing/
Recent:
Another Reason To Use ODF
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| Fast forward to today, and we learn that a company called i4i has won a
| lawsuit against Microsoft because Microsoft's use of XML -- including
| OOXML -- infringes an i4i patent. Microsoft has to pay i4i $290 million, and
| stop selling Word 2003 and Word 2007. Presumably, any product supporting
| OOXML will need to pay royalties to i4i.
|
| Meanwhile, ODF does not violate the i4i patent. (i4i has "looked at
| OpenOffice and found it doesn't infringe on its patents." OpenOffice uses
| ODF.)
|
| If you want your documents to be widely accessible, and remain accessible,
| you should use Open Document Format.
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http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.486.3
i4i tells its side of the story: Microsoft ruined our business
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090909235419648
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