[Lvlug] Microsoft Appeals Court Order Regarding Word

Matthew Dey deyoneandahalf at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 17:47:00 PDT 2009


I just hope open office doesn't infringe on the same patent.  Abiword and
Koffice too.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Poor Microsoft <chuckle, chuckle> got convicted of patent infringement on
> Word's XML.  They have until October to get the offending parts out of Word
> or else remove it from the market totally.  They're appealing asking for
> more time on "humanitarian" grounds saying consumers would be "injured" by
> its absence.
>
>   http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/147393
>
> Time to start really pushing Open Office as an alternative.
>
> B
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