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Re: MS Word problem

From	"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
Subject	Re: MS Word problem
Date	2011-06-11 08:39 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<isvnh9$g3h$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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|I see that Micro$oft have been caught thieving again! The evil bastards
| attempt to screw everybody into the ground by aggressively attempting to
| patent just about everything they do, often including things they have
| themselves previously stolen, and yet when they want to include somone
| else's work into their own bloatware they just go ahead and steal it. They
| have in recent years been caught behaving like coporate gansters in 
Jamaica
| and now they have been caught stealing stuff from Canada. What a bunch of
| unprincipled bastards!
|
| http://uk.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-must-pay-copyright-cash-084855404.html
|

  Is that something to celebrate? As I understand it,
i4i has patented something akin to object embedding
and is applying it to a publicly standardized file format.
Shouldn't we blame the patent office for this? Saying
that MS has "got their due" only strengthens the overall
system of copyright and patent "booty", which ends up
creating a tech. world ruled by giants, while the little
people have to pay protection money.
  One might call it the World of the iWarlords... if Steve
Jobs hasn't already been granted a copyright on "i".  :)

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MS Word problem "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-06-11 08:43 +0100
  Re: MS Word problem "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-06-11 08:39 -0400
  Re: MS Word problem "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-11 15:10 +0000
    Re: MS Word problem "Access Developer" <accdevel@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 12:41 -0500
      Re: MS Word problem Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-06-13 15:04 +1000
        Re: MS Word problem "mbyerley" <mbyerley@byerley.net> - 2011-06-13 09:52 -0400
          Re: MS Word problem Michael Cole <invalid@microsoft.com> - 2011-06-14 10:32 +1000
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  Re: MS Word problem "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-06-12 05:18 +1000
  Re: MS Word problem "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-11 12:54 -0700
  Re: MS Word problem DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> - 2011-06-12 11:07 -0500
    Re: MS Word problem "mbyerley" <mbyerley@byerley.net> - 2011-06-12 16:43 -0400
      Re: MS Word problem "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-06-13 07:07 +1000
      Re: MS Word problem David Kerber <dkerber@WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> - 2011-06-13 11:18 -0400
        Re: MS Word problem DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> - 2011-06-15 11:51 -0500
          Re: MS Word problem David Kerber <dkerber@WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> - 2011-06-15 13:16 -0400
  Re: MS Word problem Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-13 09:15 +0100

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