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Yahoo! Sues Xfire For Patent Infringement
CheesyPeteza writes "GameSpot is reporting
that the popular game messenger client Xfire is being sued by Yahoo for patent infringement. The patent was originally granted to two Yahoo employees who developed GameProwler for Yahoo Messenger. It describes a system which "allows users to use a game server in connection with a messenger server to permit 'buddies' to know when other 'buddies' are playing games online, and easily join such games." One of these employees then left Yahoo to work for Xfire. Xfire denies infringing on Yahoo's patent, but with the costs estimated at $2 million to defend this cas, will the startup company Xfire be able to stand up to the Yahoo giant?"
MORE GAY THAN TfHEY
Remember that dell commercial, where the techie is whispering to the camera in front of a disassembled laptop? You're that guy. You might look at the douchebag boss with the coffee cup with disdain, as I do, but remember that he's the one fucking you in the ass, and the world always sides with the guy on top, as I do. While I think it's cute that you think linux will be a viable desktop or that game designers actually pay attention to your concerns, I believe the time has come for you to ask yourselves why you've been involuntarily celibate for these last seventeen months. Because your urge to force computer preferences on the rest of the world is symptomatic of all that is broken with your personalities. Microsoft is guilty of the same crime of trying to force their technology on the population, but they have money, and power, and many of them possess social skills requisite to being in big business. Linux fanatics on the other hand try to pull this and fall flat on their faces, because they aren't rich, they have no power, and their social skills prompt them to cry themselves to sleep in dark lonely corners. Remember nerds- the rest of the world is that douchebag with the coffee cup, disapproving and scolding when you overstep your bounds. We might not lend ourselves well to sympathetic portrals in commercials and other media, but every night we can come home to a nice furnished apartment, smell some pussy before going to bed, windsurfing or skiing with friends that you don't have, and some unfaithful extramarital sex on the side. Note, this rant is only directed at 'IT guys' and code monkeys. There are obviously some of you who have carved a useful niche in society with your talent, who have friends and six-pack abs. I'm talking to the guys that change the bedpans and insert the catheters, the ones you share a building with but equally disdain. Seriously linux users, you're operating system wont make up for the fact that girls are repulesd by your bodies.
Slashdotters: You are all a bunch of faggots.
Do you hear me, you repulsive faggots? NO DIGG.
Are you for having all drugs legalised then?
I personally am, I believe people should be able to do what they like with their own bodies and education should be there to premote moderation. Like alcohol for example, it can be far more damaging than most non legal drugs but the majority of people are sensible enough to keep their intake to reasonable amounts. It's a matter of opinion and you will find that in the real world things aren't black and white like that.
I believe that patents in their current form should not be issued for software. We need some kind of protection and I agree that Slashdot only publicises the bad side of things, but still there is an endless supply of them for you to read about every day! That to me suggests a flawed system, patents are supposed to help the small inventor; the way I see it, the current system means big companies can rip off the little guy who can't afford to defend him/herself while at the same time suing everyone into oblivion over trival things.
ICQ had that feature long before yahoo even existed... let alone yahoo messenger.
prior art. tell em to get bent
Sure legalise them all, but make sure if you take that shit you lock yourself in a room til you're done so you DON'T hurt me in the process.