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blacktulip
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Copyright Industry Madness Takes 6 Years To Catch ...
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
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The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.
Bud
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Please let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.
anothermachine
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That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.
michaelfeathers
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Maybe 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
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of course not, microsoft would just licence the patent to other parties
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