Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent

mark_wilkins writes "Microsoft and Apple have been sued by Teleshuttle Technologies, LLC, alleging that their online software updating technology infringes a patent on providing online updates to software with a menuing system to permit the user to pick the updates. Apparently the work on which the patent is based supposedly goes back to 1990."

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Re:Um, this is a decent patent

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Except that Microsoft and Apple actually want to lose. They can afford to pay a billion dollars or so to these guys--but free software will be totally screwed (in America and any place else insane enough to emulate our software patent system).