I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation during the OOXML ISO process? Didn't we need to know?
Read more »New developments, details in Microsoft Word ban
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Microsoft has attempted to block the court-ordered end to sales of Microsoft Word over a patent dispute. But court papers show that company officers were aware of the patent when they took the infringing action.
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No easy fix for Word legal woes
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...when I see that one attorney thinks there's an "easy technical work-around" for Microsoft's patent violation in Word, my alarm bells go off. There is no easy fix here, and, short of waving the white-flag, Microsoft may very well have to stop selling Word, and thus Microsoft Office, this fall.
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Microsoft Files Emergency Motion to Stay Execution of Judgment in i4i
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Microsoft on August 14th filed a sealed motion, in response to the August 11 judgment and injunction against it in i4i v. Microsoft. I can't show you a sealed motion, obviously, but here's the docket entry, to at least give you a clue...
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The Microsoft Crowd Uses the Word Verdict to Throw FUD at ODF, More Spin Comes from Denmark
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Contrary to abundant FUD out there, ODF is not at risk due to the i4i lawsuit
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Microsoft Hostility Towards XML Expands to Hostility Towards HTML
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Microsoft is looking to repossess documents by harming ODF, PDF, and HTML, using patents, FUD, RAND, and Silverlight
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Ubuntu Tweaks Patent Policy, MS Has “IP Group”
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XML Patent for Microsoft
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The core of US Patent 7,571,169 which Microsoft was granted on August 4th refers to – "A word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML".
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When Patents Are Not a Monopoly Strong Enough…
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The Pharmaceutical Cartel wants increased government-granted monopoly in addition to patents
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Open Invention Network starts buying patents
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The Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that it was starting a new programme to acquire patents from "entrepreneurial inventors".
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Introducing Bloatnux
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New GNU/Linux distribution from Boycott Novell. IT has been a long time since SueMe GNU/Linux, so one of us decided to create a similar distribution which is based on (Open)SUSE.
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Patents, Video, and an Open Internet
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For a number of reasons, I’m fascinated by the fight over the tag in HTML5 as related by Ryan Paul of Ars Technica – and not just because I like the idea of not having to install a plugin to watch video online.
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Yes Linus, Microsoft hating is a disease. And it's a pandemic
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The submission by Microsoft of twenty thousand lines of code to the Kernel has, predictably, caused many an eyebrow to arch. The phrase "beware Greeks bearing gifts" comes swiftly to mind.
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Red Hat Asks Microsoft to Stop the Patent Racketeering
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Had Microsoft been up to any good, it would rescind the patent threats too, implicitly claims Red Hat
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Microsoft takes aim at Red Hat for Patents, IP
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Microsoft made waves this week with their GPLv2 contribution of virtualization code. On the other side of the coin, Microsoft continues to take issue with open source vendors over the issue of patents. One vendor that has called on Microsoft to be more open is Red Hat. In a blog post, Red Hat's legal team praised Microsoft's code contribution while asking Microsoft to change its stance on patents.
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