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How can this patent hold up?
This patent describes 90% of all shareware registration
schemes as well as every CD-Key system used by software
since the 1980s, there's no way this is valid...
Posted by: ChiperSoft   Posted on: 04/08/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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.  n0neXn0ne | 04/08/09
Microsoft is chasing after the Apple long time money fund.  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 04/09/09
How can this patent hold up?  ChiperSoft | 04/08/09
That was my first reaction too  Larry Dignan ZDNet Moderator | 04/08/09
Same argument holds for an awful lot of software  seanferd | 04/09/09
What holds interesting here...  ShadowGIATL | 04/09/09
Consider the location of the trial  MGP2 | 04/08/09
Don't forget  Loverock Davidson | 04/09/09
Poor Loverock  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 04/09/09
Just because it is ubiquitous ...  bjbrock | 04/09/09
Particularly in light...  914four | 04/09/09
Patent Trolls...  BillDem | 04/09/09
Microsoft would be the last to agree with you.  softwareFlunky | 04/09/09
A bad patent because  edwards.wb | 04/09/09
Not Patentable - how can this be?  jackgzero | 04/09/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  Loverock Davidson | 04/08/09
Aww..angry poor widdle Microsoft lost?  itanalyst2@... | 04/09/09
But now  rparker009 | 04/09/09
Just give them  Loverock Davidson | 04/09/09
Bogus patents . . .  sporkfighter | 04/09/09
i think  JamesDoyle | 04/10/09
Ah, gee, Rockhead, ...  OButterball | 04/09/09
"They stab it with their steely knives."  kozmcrae | 04/08/09
Some beasts...  914four | 04/09/09
RE: Some Beasts....  bfilipiak@... | 04/09/09
Yes actually, I'd like to nominate HP...  914four | 04/09/09
Re HP  elderlybloke | 04/09/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  pkatz | 04/08/09
Office XP was before 2003  ZStoner | 04/08/09
The lawsuit...  914four | 04/09/09
The case was . . .  sporkfighter | 04/09/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  HiPressure | 04/09/09
Billanthropy!  David Blomstrom | 04/09/09
Look who is pretending  GuidingLight | 04/09/09
The worst part is  Loverock Davidson | 04/09/09
Well we know you were  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 04/09/09
Bill Gates Hasn't Left MIcrosoft  David Blomstrom | 04/09/09
Oh I wouldn't be surprised...  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 04/09/09
turn about is fair play...  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
I am another "anti-Microsoft looney  elderlybloke | 04/09/09
RE elderlybloke  dougbeer | 04/10/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  tentaro@... | 04/09/09
RE:  rdiekema@... | 04/09/09
Well said!  914four | 04/09/09
What goes around comes around...  914four | 04/09/09
how about long file names?  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
Hmmm.  StinkyCheeseMan | 04/09/09
well put, i hadn't even thought of that. nt  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
as usual, M$ will keep them in court forever until a new piracy, i mean  wessonjoe | 04/09/09
Stealing for profit can be risky  whisperycat | 04/09/09
Dead on!  914four | 04/09/09
Clearly not a valid patent...  GrizzledGeezer | 04/09/09
There was in 1993 when the patent was applied for.  914four | 04/09/09
Stop software patents NOW!!!  storm14k | 04/09/09
Re; Stop software patents NOW!!!  hkommedal | 04/10/09
RE: Stop software patents NOW!!!  djchandler | 04/10/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  bigpicture | 04/09/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  RyeCatcher | 04/09/09
Microsoft will never pay wrong for us to steal ok for Microsoft.  Randalllind | 04/09/09
Your Title Stinks, And Your Point is Dumb. Good Day Sir!  jasongroce | 04/09/09
Microsoft is the Dark Ages.  Henrik Moller | 04/09/09
Are you 20 or something?  BFD | 04/09/09
I'm . . .  sporkfighter | 04/09/09
I Agree with Sporkfighter  914four | 04/10/09
As of tomorrow, I'll be 56.  Henry Miller | 04/09/09
Happy 56th Birthday Mr. Henry Miller!  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 04/10/09
Kettle calling the pot black  ThePrairiePrankster | 04/09/09
Agree 100%  i8thecat | 04/09/09
Except for the fact...  zkiwi | 04/09/09
Windows and Office keeps Microsoft afloat  Randalllind | 04/09/09
Oh boy  hasta la Vista, bah-bie | 04/09/09
Small companies like . . .  sporkfighter | 04/09/09
Software patent system is broken  ThePrairiePrankster | 04/09/09
"no one is better off except the lawyers"  Ole Man | 04/09/09
Insurance is a close 2nd.  joe.smetona@... | 04/10/09
Just as bad  Ole Man | 04/11/09
Re; Stop software patents NOW!!!  hkommedal | 04/10/09
WGA?  invmgr@... | 04/09/09
Not that I have any appreciation for Draconian anti-piracy mechanisms...  Henrik Moller | 04/09/09
MS is not a Borge...  kidfess | 04/09/09
that's because MS's idea of innovation is it...  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
Its aboout time, but that fee needs more 0's... nt  T1Oracle | 04/09/09
Yes. Something like 0.388 . (nt)  hkommedal | 04/10/09
THE missing lawsuit  Maurizio Albera | 04/09/09
...was dismissed as being too late  Get-Smart | 04/09/09
i believe that Xerox original code was based in part  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
Xerox v Apple  mgjazz | 04/09/09
Xerox Star  mgjazz | 04/09/09
Xerox Alto - mid 70s  mgjazz | 04/09/09
I can't resist ... this is too stupid ...  Golodh2 | 04/09/09
"Disallow patents on business methods"  Ole Man | 04/09/09
Do not be flimflammed and sucked in by any such devious shenanigans  Ole Man | 04/09/09
i think they patented bittorrent...  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
They surely did describe bit-torrent.  hkommedal | 04/10/09
God Bless the Onion....  michael.tindall@... | 04/09/09
You know its funny...  NoThomas | 04/09/09
Most of MS's lawsuit against TomTom was based on...  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
Way to gloss over important facts  T1Oracle | 04/09/09
Not the point I was making  NoThomas | 04/09/09
U R Funny  David Blomstrom | 04/09/09
I think people feel that Microsoft reaped what they've sown.  jbroche18 | 04/11/09
It's "The" Borge not "A" Borge  cutting@... | 04/09/09
Borge was a pianist/comic...  zkiwi | 04/09/09
But what about the Borgia Family?  djchandler | 04/10/09
Another amazingly stupid patent.  Bruizer | 04/09/09
your right, it wasn't new in 03 because it was patented in 93  brokndodge@... | 04/09/09
Agreed! ("Software patents like these simply need to all be thrown out")  Ole Man | 04/10/09
Re; Software patents like these simply need to all be thrown out.  hkommedal | 04/10/09
Victor Borge  RealGem | 04/09/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  bobc4012@... | 04/09/09
The question continues to be begged...  John L. Ries | 04/10/09
Absolutely wrong on what this patent "covers"  d26nwdz8001@... | 04/10/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  gtatransam@... | 04/10/09
Patent must hold - MS is evil  wellduh | 04/10/09
The patent stinks - the story they're not telling  stefan.metzeler@... | 04/16/09
So why did they lose?  Ole Man | 04/16/09
More clues to the patent problem...  Narg | 04/20/09
RE: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent  DocNasty | 04/20/09
This is the way I see it  Altotus | 04/23/09
SAS Institute has violated this patent since 1976!  michaelcamp | 04/24/09
I got out of the business  smee0000 | 04/30/09
For the record  Fred Fredrickson | 08/24/09

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