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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Laukev7 on 23 June 2004, 23:07
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http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99 (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99)
Next thing you'll hear they're going to patent the human body.
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Originally posted by Laukev7:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99 (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/23/1513218.shtml?tid=126&tid=155&tid=99)
Next thing you'll hear they're going to patent the human body.
Hay, man don't give em any ideas! They just might! :D
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Now they patent group buttons. Wasn't that ripped off from KDE? :rolleyes:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/02/0027244.shtml?tid=109&tid=155&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=201&tid=99 (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/02/0027244.shtml?tid=109&tid=155&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=201&tid=99)
[ July 02, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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Slightly off topic..
Aparently Harley Davidson have a patent on the noise their motorcylces make.
I think I must have fallen into Wonderland somehow :confused:
zooloo
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Originally posted by zolo:
Slightly off topic..
Aparently Harley Davidson have a patent on the noise their motorcylces make.
I think I must have fallen into Wonderland somehow :confused:
zooloo
No I think you have your facts mixed up.
Harley Davidson tried to Copyyright the sound of their motorcycles. They didn't get away with it.
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Originally posted by Laukev7:
Now they patent group buttons. Wasn't that ripped off from KDE? :rolleyes:
It was introduced in KDE 2.2, released 9/2001 (before XP). Microsoft filed for the patent in 2000. According to a Slashdot poster, BeOS had this in 1999.