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  1. Re:10+ years? by xigxag · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights

    Nitpicking aside, font IP law can be a little tricky. In the US, anyway, you can't copyright typefaces, that is, the actual representation of the font on the page. You can't even copyright bitmapped fonts, which are nothing but representations of typefaces. You can however, copyright scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts which are basically instructions (programs) on how to draw a font. In other countries the law tends to be more in favor of the creator, but even so, it's not unreasonable that MS could've reverse engineered a font clone without violating IP laws. So Zhongyi might've needed time to gather compelling evidence before pressing its case. There's also the fact that this lawsuit was commenced back in April 2007, and possibly there was an attempt to negotiate before the case started. And possibly Zhongyi was deterred by the knowledge that heretofore, as ifwm says, China didn't "give a shit about IP" rights. So I think the delay in prosecution was likely reasonable.

  2. Incomplete and out of date. by FTL · · Score: 5, Interesting · on The Age of Space Exploration
    To illustrate how quickly things can change in the field of planetary exploration, the details for the 'Messenger' probe to Mercury are already out of date. Liftoff has been postponed from May to July, and it will take a different route to get to Mercury. It won't get there until 2011.

    The list only includes NASA, ESA and JAXA. Completely missing are the upcoming probes from China and India . Oddly, Russia doesn't seem to have anything planned.