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Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stupid-patent-hurt-the-big-guy-too dept.

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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  1. Re:Shakespear was right by BCW2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You make a strange comparison. How about a lawyer who made millions off shakey malpractice lawsuits and now worries about the cost of healthcare. Of course he now wants to be Vice President.

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  2. RTFA by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, if you would bother to RTFA then you would see that it clearly sez that they tried to approach both comapnies, and they pretty much said "you're full of shit get lost"

    Also, had you bothered to RFTA, you could have read the patent which is clearly weak at best. This is another SCO who is about to die a slow, painful, fiery death.

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  3. Not so... by Savet+Hegar · · Score: 0, Troll

    This means hundreds of thousands of corporate computers will be safe from the windows update virus

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