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Re: [News] [Rival] Convicted Monopolist Microsoft Claims to Have 'Invented' Portable Applications

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____/ Homer on Saturday 15 May 2010 11:52 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Microsoft patents portable applications
> 
> Should I laugh, or shake my head and point out the obvious?
> 
> By their definition, any static binary running from any removable media
> is "portable", and I'm pretty sure IBM and others were doing that long
> before the Vole.
> 
> The patent system is a joke.

Japan has a similar problem (patents per capita ratio is similar).

Moe patents is *not* more innovation, it's more monopoly.

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