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Microsoft Wants More Credit for Inventions
theodp writes "Bill Gates said Thursday that Microsoft expects to file 3,000 patent applications this year, up from a little over 2,000 last year and 1,000 just a few years ago. 'We think--patent for patent--what we are doing is, if anything, more important than what others are doing,' said Gates, perhaps referring to 'Organizing and displaying photographs based on time,' which the USPTO published just hours before Gates spoke."
If you've ever seen the movie High Fidelity the main character decides to organize his albums not by title or genre, but by autobiographical so that if he wanted to find an album he had to remember when he bought it. Well just for fun I decided to do the same thing with my porn collection using iPhoto. Now I can see how my tastes in porno have changed and grown more sophisticated over the last 7 years. And wow I was into some pretty kinky shit as a 12 year old.
once their patent on the blue screen of death goes through ...
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they will be getting payouts left and right for that
it is by far the most ubiquitous of PC conventions that has ever been seen.
it took four people to come up with that!
Sorry jomas1, your post was kind of long so I didn't bother to read it all. But yes, your patent for first post is granted.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Microsoft patents three finger salute. Whiny boy scouts claim prior art. Bill Gates derides scouts as religious cult, and threatens to sue the pimply freaks into oblivion.
So, Microsoft is gonna surrender to Linux? Hooray!