Can someone explain this to me? It's too early in the morning, especially since I haven't gone to bed yet. Apparently a judge has told Microsoft that they can't sell Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent of....XML??! link: http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/word-patent/
WTF? Seriously? Couldn't Microsoft just remove/block the XML compatability from Word and continue to sell it?
They're called patent trolls. Small companies make a vague patent, in the hope that one day a big company will make something that uses it, and then they sue them. Except this very rarely succeeds, and when it does, the big companies just appeal the crap out of it before they win.
Does anyone ever read articles? Look at how many people were up in arms over Ravensword supposedly being 3GS only when the second sentence of the article said that it wasn't.
Hodapp, welcome to the world where the younger generation's short attention span has permeated throughout everything. One can't make a post longer than a couple of sentences on a message board, thought out e-mails are going extinct replaced by the "every minute NOW" paradigm of tweets, and articles? Ha. Forget it. You shouldn't even bother previewing things anymore because apparently even when something needs more in depth discussion it's automatically ignored. Whoops. I went over a couple of sentences, thereby ensuring this whole thing won't be read.
What can't Microsoft sell?! but yeah nothing like a good old small time company that patents something and hopes someone uses it Sure some of the fault lies with the individual but it still takes a lawyer to say "I'll take the case" ....
Lol... I guess I should have said "Microsoft can't sell Word in the US anymore, unless an agreement is reached and they pay a big check, due to the ruling of a Texas judge" My bad...it was too early in the morning!
