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The patent would certainly be considered obvious nowadays, but that's not the point. The guy did show his work to Microsoft, they said "Nice idea, yoink". He di
by antipaganda 17y ago
The patent would certainly be considered obvious nowadays, but that's not the point. The guy did show his work to Microsoft, they said "Nice idea, yoink". He did indeed have a patent on the idea. He won an appeal based on the fact that the judge did not listen to a jury's opinion on the case. So they got a jury, and the jury voted in favour of Richardson.
And the judge again ignores the jury. What the hell, man?
- varjag 17y ago> The guy did show his work to Microsoft, they said "Nice idea, yoink". That's his version of the story.
- cubicle67 17y agoWell, that was pretty common form for MS during the 90's. There's dozens of companies who's work MS stole blatantly, often under the pretence of 'That's a great tech you've got. let's work together on it'
- varjag 17y agoSo far it sounds more as if someone came to you with "newly-discovered" bubblesort algorithm, you said "uh nice" and proceeded using quciksort, then got sued.