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So if M$ patented this technology, does it mean that other companies can not use this kind of shit to limit their users? If so this would be a good thing.
by blacktulip 14y ago
So if M$ patented this technology, does it mean that other companies can not use this kind of shit to limit their users? If so this would be a good thing.
- Falkvinge 14y agoThe odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.
- Bud 14y agoPlease let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.
- anothermachine 14y agoThat's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.
- michaelfeathers 14y agoMaybe the law has changed but I heard that a patent for a waterbed was once refused because Robert Heinlein had described one in a novel.
- zalzane 14y agoof course not, microsoft would just licence the patent to other parties