Microsoft appear to be getting settled into the trenches in the war
against anything not Microsoft. One thing they are doing, depending on
how you read it, seems to be lodging shotgun patent applications in
countries that may at some point sign a free trade agreement with the
US and therefore be subject to US IP laws. Some of these would be plain
ridiculous if the were granted. Like stopping anyone else from storing
documents in XML (something they had nothing to do with inventing).
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155&tid=109
Rob
On 16/03/2005, at 9:00 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
I think this speaks for itself (well, you do have to read between the
lines)...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx
It's not that Microsoft have their own music player to protect, they
just don't want you thinking "iPod" or "iTunes". Pity the rest of the
world doesn't agree...
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