Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Annorax on 15 August 2005, 03:32
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http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece
Apple Computer may be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft for every iPod it sells after it emerged that Bill Gates's software giant beat Steve Jobs' firm in the race to file a crucial patent on technology used in the popular portable music players. The total bill could run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Although Apple introduced the iPod in November 2001, it did not file a provisional patent application until July 2002, and a full application was filed only in October that year.
In the meantime, Microsoft submitted an application in May 2002 to patent some key elements of music players, including song menu software.
The dispute, which emerged this week on the closely watched website, Appleinsider.com, could lead to Apple having to pay a licence fee for the technology of up to $10 a machine.
David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual property licensing and business development, said: "In general, our policy is to allow others to license our patents so they can use our innovative methods in their products."
OUR innovative methods? It's obvious that Apple created and RELEASED the now-MS-patented iPod software before MS filed for the patent. That guy is INSANE....
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An insane guy who wants money.
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Why the hell did MS get this patent when there clearly was prior art???
This is complete bull#$%^!
The whole patent system is completely #$$@&ed up in this country.
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WHAT!?!?!?!?
How is that even possible!?
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WHAT!?!?!?!?
How is that even possible!?
Wait for an innovative solution to come out, see if it's patented right away, if not patent it yourself. It's called retroactive patenting, and I'm pretty sure it's a federal crime. Bah, what do I know?
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This is just one more example of what I refer to as "de facto" crimes committed by BillySoft.
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hopefully, this is a hoax.
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i need the exact location of the US patent office and a nuke. , mbut seriously apple tries to patent it and they cant so than MS tries to patent something apple made and it goes through. WAY TO SCREWED UP
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Im going to patent the bash prompt and make GNU LUSERS PAY.
Fuck, thats awesome. Im moving to America!
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You can patent pretty much anything these days. ;)
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:D
You can patent pretty much anything these days. ;)
Especially if your father is one of America's most powerful and corrupt lawyers. And let's not forget that Bill Gates even claimed the word "Windows" for his own. How the Hell he did he pull that one off? It's a generic word to begin with, and, as I understand it, it had become a fairly common term in high-tech circles.
I still think that name could and should be challenged in court. And remember that legal spat Bill Gates had with that kid in British Columbia over the domain name http://www.mikerowe.com, or something like that?
Actually, I suspect that was all a public relations stunt, a little conspiracy hatched by Gates & Co., who recruited Rowe to play the part of the victim. But that's another story...
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DavidB - I remember that stupid publicity stunt - it was just some kid with a rich dad who made is own website.
boo hoo!
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That really does suck, and I thougt it was genuine... :rolleyes:
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Microsoft deserves to get back every penny those rip-offs Apple stole from them over the last 20 years,
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please say you are being sarcastic
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don't feed the trolls
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ok
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DavidB - I remember that stupid publicity stunt - it was just some kid with a rich dad who made is own website.
boo hoo!
Actually, I've speculated that this might have been just another Microsoft conspiracy. I'm not sure what purpose it might have served unless Microsoft simply wanted to send out the message that it wouldn't tolerate websites that infringe on Bill Gates' empire.
After the legal squabble was settled, Rowe launched an online forum. I began posting there and was blown away by the responses I received. The people hanging out on his forums are too antagonistic, too vile and too juvenile to be real. They all act like anarchists on drugs. And when I attacked Microsoft, NO ONE would defend or support me, not even Rowe himself.
When I stopped posting there, I'd receive e-mails asking me to come back, as if they were taunting me. It's possible that Rowe simply launched a respectable forum that was simply taken over by Microsoft whores, but I suspect the whole thing was a conspiracy from the beginning. One thing's for certain: Mike Rowe's no political activist; he's either a self-serving asshole or a Microsoft operative (e.g. an asshole).
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Have you though of the $$$ royalties you would get patenting:
-chewing
-English
-oral sex
-chewing
-blowing your nose
etc...
America, here I come...
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Screw that, I'm patenting the letter "e". Anyone who uses it owes me one cent.
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most of your moni will com from microsoft than
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I might patent trolling.
GNAA WOULD MAKE ME RICH