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MS Palladium Patent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the click-here-to-upgrade dept.

Concerned Citizen writes "cryptome has Microsoft's patent for Palladium. Including such gems as: 2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein protecting the rights-managed data comprises: refusing to load the untrusted program into memory. 14. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising: restricting a user to a subset of available functions for manipulating the rights-managed data. And I'm sure we'll all be coerced to agree to Palliadium during a future security patch agreement."

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  1. Re:how 'bout apple by tunah · · Score: 5, Informative
    Microsoft bought a bunch of non-voting stock in apple as part of a deal that included cross licensing of patents. This settled a long running dispute of MS supposedly stealing apple's look and feel.

    Microsoft quietly sold their stock (for a profit) some time afterward.

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