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Microsoft Leaves U.N. Standards Group

Posted by timothy on from the straightforward dept.

pk2000 writes "Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce. 'Unfortunately, for now, we have made the decision to stop participating in U.N./Cefact for business reasons and this serves as notification of our immediate withdrawal from all U.N./Cefact activities.' This might be connected to Microsoft's intention to build up its patent portfolio. Currently it has about 5,000 patents and seeks to at least double this number by the end of 2005."

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  1. And then... by samrolken · · Score: -1, Troll

    And then they begin an invasion of Iraq?

    --
    samrolken
  2. Re:Who... what... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They hate the Security Council. They love the rest, because so much of it is dominated by radical leftist NGOs populated by the kind of people who read slashdot.

  3. Re:Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."
    -- the little green thing from StarWars

    I live to see the day the Emperor nukes CumTaco and his Horrible Homosexual Hordes.

  4. Well.... by wpiman · · Score: -1, Troll

    We have the communist MS pulling out of the communist UN. What is the world coming to? It used to be so easy to classifiy things- now I have to worry about things like Shite and Sunny Arabs. When I can't lump all evil things into one category- how am I supposed to tell good from evil?