High court judge bans Microsoft from selling Word.

LOL! Oracle are going to be bricking it, having acquired OpenOffice.org with Sun.

I hope they do get sued, they're evil. They want to ditch GTK and use a Java Frontend for OpenOffice. *vomits*
 
Fillado said:
it's nice to see Microsoft getting caught at the wrong end of one for a change.
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Every few months there's yet another company that regards patenting something in vague terms and them sueing Microsoft (and others) as a business plan in the hope they get bought or paid to go away. It doesn't help that the judges granting injunctions in the first place genreally seem to not have the remotest real world knowledge about the technology they are ruling on

In this case I can't see they have a hope in hell, and sure as hell if they did get paid off or got away with it they wont be stopping with MS.
 
i think this is quite amusing, its typical litigious microsoft behavior, its just being used against microsoft, its massively ironic*

*warning this is neither pro or anti the verdict or any of the legal entities involved. ........ u just gotta watch it these days!
 
Fillado said:
While this patent is ridiculous, most software patents in general are and it's nice to see Microsoft getting caught at the wrong end of one for a change.
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Have to agree really. Microsoft are hardly innocent when it comes to filing incredibly vague catch-all patents like this...

The whole concept of protecting a software design pattern with a patent needs to be anulled and consigned to the history books. It is just ridiculous.
 
I put this in network and programming -

This is in the metro this morning -

Meanwhile, Microsoft have been fined £175 million for infringing a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The ruling relates to the use of XML, a programming language that allows formatting of text.
Microsoft has also been barred from selling Word which can open .XML files. It has 60 days to comply.
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It is possible to simply 'bar MS selling Word' ?
 
Guest2 said:
It is possible to simply 'bar MS selling Word' ?
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In a word..yes :p the judge's jurisdiction is restricted to the USA, however. Hence only the US is actually affected.

Although that's a significant part of their target market so obviously it will affect the rest of us..
 
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Won't MS just pay off i4i for the patent. Im sure throwing a billion $ at this probably quite small i4i company would should shut them up
 
Burnsy2023 said:
No but I feel better when worshipping at his shrine in Zepler :D

The worrying this about this is that MS may not be the last to get stung by this patent.
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I take it macromedia have bought it, i thought dreamweaver was the first program to translate XML. Also Visual Studio
 
Guest2 said:
I take it macromedia have bought it, i thought dreamweaver was the first program to translate XML. Also Visual Studio
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The patent particularly refers to the use of changing a documents structure and content at the same time. Most, but not all XML does this due to the definition of 'document'
 
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