Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Access Developer" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion Subject: Re: MS Word problem Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:41:37 -0500 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <95kc29F35sU1@mid.individual.net> References: X-Trace: individual.net J8rN2c4jBSSi+fR7fktTKAKQZm5YUt/OMNeDwBk6xNhz9QkTqn Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z/COog1GpWN8yfPUfrFR0JXdm2w= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:241 "Auric__" wrote > Mike Williams wrote: > >> I see that Micro$oft have been caught >> thieving again! > > What does this have to do with VB? > *THAT* at least they paid for. Mike's got a hardon against Microsoft, so cut him a little slack for being off-topic. There aren't enough posts here now for it to matter as much as it once did. The U.S. Patent Office, knowing little about computers or software, began granting unwarranted software patents years ago, and companies of all sizes are just taking advantage of the Patent Office's idiocy. Everybody and the fleas on their dogs are applying for patents, and having them granted, for trivial, non-unique, non-original work and then suing everyone in sight. It's not just Microsoft, and it's not 'just desserts'. Larry