Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn

stock writes "The heat is on. Inside eweek.com are some remarkable articles: 'You see, Microsoft is busy patenting everything it can lay its hands on with all three. In fact, Microsoft is now building up its patent arsenal, applying for a rather amazing 10 patents a day. The idea isn't to ensure that Microsoft makes a fair profit from its patents; it's to make sure that no one else can write fully compatible software.' An older article mentions some other patents."

Comments

Re:the evidence that the day is coming is mounting

[Anonymous Coward]

> Well at the moment they are about to bend SCO over a court bench

Using a LWZ ("GIF") patent, which IBM has ignored up to this point. A fact underreported on /. and a pretty disgusting move.

Re:the evidence that the day is coming is mounting

[Master of Transhuman]

> BTW, Why is Microsoft's solution to design
> problems "more code" instead of "less
> complexity"? They must have skipped that day in
> design school.

Exactly. They hire 24-year-olds with no fraggin' clue about system design or how people use computers in the Real World - then make then Product Managers. As Hannibal said, "Second-raters, the lot."

You know why Microsoft must eventually fail? Because they're morons. And the chief moron is Bill Gates. Oh, sure, he taught himself contract law - whoop-de-doo.