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Study: Microsoft patents could threaten Linux

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insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by Viper:
Could Microsoft

WMD:
Off the top of my head, I know that MS has a patent on "grouping taskbar buttons" - meaning, if you have multiple windows of one app loaded, they would become a single menu-like entry on the taskbar.  MS apparently filed for this in 2000, but didn't release that until XP in Oct. 2001.  KDE 2.2 introduced this a month earlier than that.  Who knows who has rights to that one...

Aloone_Jonez:

quote:
Flap:
Unfortunately that isn't the case, especially not with software. Software Patents would be bad enough even if they were only granted for 'novel' ideas, but the situation is made worse by the fact that such trivial, obvious ideas can be and are patented.
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Even if a blatantly obvious idea were patented, it wouldn

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