[Lvlug] Microsoft Appeals Court Order Regarding Word

[Michael Gossett]

The way Open Office is pushed with all these other products you'd figure it
was spyware O_O

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Matthew Dey <deyoneandahalf at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just hope open office doesn't infringe on the same patent.  Abiword and
> Koffice too.
>
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> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> 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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