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"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote in message 
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> "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in
> news:isv6bl$osg$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> I see that Micro$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-0
>> 84855404.html
>
> Actually, s/w patent are ridiculous and the entire system
> needs to be overhauled for the computer industry.
>
> There are almost no *truly* innovative ideas anymore, and some


    I have thought for a very long time, that in any given language to 
address a specific problem, and the problem is addressed many to the fourth 
or so, that exact source code replication is inevitable, so in that context, 
when the particular replicator comes up with the exact solution, independent 
of the discovery or exposure to the originating source code, how has he 
violated anything?

  Music is another shithole of copyrights.  An album/song can't be sold by a 
label until each song has been checked for sampling and if any song has (I 
don't know the exact standard) sampling, inadvertant or not, the label has 
to secure a release by either paying for or being granted outright before 
releasing for sale because of the monetary exposure..


> companies buy & apply for and receive patents as their main
> business now.
>
> The system is ocmpletely broken.....
>
> Take this for example.... http://arstechnica.com/open-
> source/news/2009/11/microsofts-psuedo-sudo-patent-doesnt-
> really-cover-sudo.ars
>
> ....while the initial reaction across the open source & linux
> communities was appauled that MS was able to 'patent' the SUDO
> command, which was mistakn, I see nothing innovative in the
> nature of what this patent really covers.....
>
> What it covers is when elevated rightas are needed to do
> something, the OS will show you a GUI of all users that have
> admin rights, so you can pick it off a list, instead of having
> to type in a user name.
>
> That's it, in a nutshell.
>
> Forgive me if I'm simplfying this, but isn't this just a
> database lookup table ?
>
> I mean, really, the OS will look through the registry (or
> wherever this info is stored), filter out which don't have
> admin rights, and then present them to you in a box which you
> can scroll up or down to highlight the one you want to select,
> and prese enter.
>
> This certainly isn't anything 'innovative'.
>
>
>
> 

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      Re: MS Word problem David Kerber <dkerber@WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> - 2011-06-13 11:18 -0400
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