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Microsoft Patenting IM Translation?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pipe-through-babelfish-equals-patent dept.

theodp writes "The USPTO just published Microsoft's patent application for a Method and system for translating instant messages, in which the software giant demonstrates how an English-speaking sender can type 'Hi' in an IM and it will be translated to 'Hola' for a Spanish-speaking recipient."

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  1. Funny thing about midgets! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They are all short.

  2. Subscribers among us! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, slashdot has at least one subscriber! I am blown away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. A simple solution, abolish patents. by Thinkit3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How come this is not brought up much? The simplist, most elegant solution is to completely abolish patents. Patents were not now and never were a good idea. They fly in the face of logic itself.

    --
    -Libertarian secular transhumanist
  4. Re:What do you want to say today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh linux is just so fucking funny... hahahahaha