[Lvlug] Microsoft Appeals Court Order Regarding Word

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Matthew Dey <deyoneandahalf at gmail.com> wrote:


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

From what little extra reading I did, the XML patent infringement involves only a specific "feature" implementation in Word.  What that "feature" is is not mentioned.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/147231/whoa-microsoft-word-is-illegal/;_ylt=Am.ovzFK07FbpXyxdkC7_lTxMJA5


> 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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