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Re: MS Word problem

From	"StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
References	<isv6bl$osg$1@dont-email.me> <Xns9F027B6CC915Dthisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131> <za6dnRs3g5VluWjQnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Subject	Re: MS Word problem
Date	2011-06-13 07:07 +1000
Message-ID	<4df52a7b@dnews.tpgi.com.au> (permalink)

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"mbyerley" <mbyerley@byerley.net> wrote in message 
news:za6dnRs3g5VluWjQnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> "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 
> news:Xns9F027B6CC915Dthisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131...
>> "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'.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
It all sounds like American lawyers to me...

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        Re: MS Word problem "mbyerley" <mbyerley@byerley.net> - 2011-06-13 09:52 -0400
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  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
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          Re: MS Word problem David Kerber <dkerber@WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> - 2011-06-15 13:16 -0400
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