Hi, as the ones of you who read Slashdot already know, the last Microsoft brilliant idea was to patent nothing less than the "isnot" operator of Basic.
The patent was is waiting to explode
Hi, as the ones of you who read Slashdot already know, the last Microsoft brilliant idea was to patent nothing less than the "isnot" operator of Basic.
The patent was is waiting to explode
If you save your data in a proprietary format, the owner of the format owns your data.
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Sorry, but the link doesn't work.
The more complex a system is, the smaller the bugs get; the smaller the bugs are, the more often they appear.
Woked for me.
What nonsense. :?
Jason McMillen
Pascal Game Development
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Which is why you all need to Sign the Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe and stop them doing that over here.
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Signed it.
Software Patents are wrong.
Copyright is good.
They are not related.
They have gone too far, how can you pattent a word or a color ?! :shock: :evil: :twisted:
It's the second on my list of human stupidity after the color patents.
So now we can't use this instruction because MS pattented it ?
The guys who approve them even read such nonsense claims ?
Pattents are so wrong for some things like words or colors,
they are good for inventions(real objects) not software.
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The future must be... Fast and OpenSource so...
<br />Think Open and Lightning Fast!
Lightning, I could not agree with you more. :roll:Originally Posted by Lightning
Jason McMillen
Pascal Game Development
Co-Founder
Actually I doubt that Microsoft are the ones to blame. If they'd not patent it someone else probably would and then sue Microsoft. Most of the time that companies patent stuff like this it is to protect itself rather than using it against others.
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I don't think this is the case for Microsoft. If i know how they think (and you can just look back at the past), they'll surely use it for some barely legal action.
I think it is very probable that they'll use it as a weapon against linux and open source. Just wait some year and we'll see.
If you save your data in a proprietary format, the owner of the format owns your data.
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I still doubt that they'll try anything, killing off the open source comunity is doomed adventure anyway.
However, they've already talked about how Linux violates more than 228 patents (click) so who knows.
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