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Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn

Posted by michael on from the playing-keep-away dept.

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."

3 of 571 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Karma Whores Coming ... by amightywind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When can we get our next iTunes article?

    Right after the next global warming one.

    --
    an ill wind that blows no good
  2. Re:the evidence that the day is coming is mounting by jkabbe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think one of the reasons people hate lawyers is that they often say things in a complicated way when a simpler way would have sufficed.

    The good news is that at least some law schools are taking note and teaching law students how to write like NORMAL PEOPLE

  3. What DRM is being driven from by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DRM is being driven not by demand from consumers but from owners of copyrights.

    DRM is being driven from fear of rampant P2P piracy. Blame pirates. The only way to enforce copyrights is to protect it digitally through usage restrictions, because few other things work. Hell, the RIAA can't even enforce its own copyrights with lawsuits without a bunch of whiny college students jumping up and painting the RIAA as a bad guy for protecting its own rights.

    It sucks, but fucking pirates with their mindsets have ruined it for everyone and forced copyright holders into setting up restrictions to make it difficult to just fire up eMule and pirate away.