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Start-up Granted Injunction Against Microsoft
AustinSlacker writes " A San Jose, CA start-up, Alacritech Inc, was granted a preliminary injunction against Microsoft in a patent infringement lawsuit involving several patents related to Microsoft's implementation of "Chimney" TCP offload architecture."
Alacritch sounds like something you need Tinactin to get rid of.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I'm confused; I thought we were against software patents?
And to think for all this time I thought Microsoft Chimney was going to be an addon to Longhorn to help cool down my new quad core Pentium 8 256 bit nano-processor, which is what will be out by the time they release it.
Try to keep up. Software patents are a *good* thing when used against Microsoft!
(for the humor impaired, that was meant to be tongue in cheek)
Personally I hope microsoft takes this as an opportuity to reevaluate it's stance on software patents....
...Hey, I can dream....
Stop intellectual property from infringing on me
Patent lawsuits.... Microsoft.... evil quotient reaching infinity...
cannot... decide... which to... cheer for... brain can't take... much more... **BOOM**
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
I congrat myself, rating the stupidity of the common "American Idiot" (Green Day) perfectly.
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
It goes this way:
patents == bad.
patents used against M$ (must use the $ sign) == good
copyright infringement == good
using GPL code and not releasing source == copyright infringement == bad
sharing music / movies != theft as nothing physical was taken
using GPL code and not releasing source == theft as the source was 'stolen'
SCO making unfounded claims that Linux poached SCO code == bad
Linux zealots making unfounded claims that M$ uses GPL code == good
We are anti-patent, but we are pro-schadenfreude.
Is the impending Microsoft buy-out of the company. We've seen this exact pattern repeated any of number of times in the past with Microsoft and I'm sure we'll see it again in the future. In the business world, meeting with Microsoft to divuldge your technology secrets is the same as a sorority girl yelling "I'm soooo drunk!" at a frat party. Suing them is the the foreplay to some hot Microsoft buy-out action!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
According to this, Microsoft met with them, asked them for the architecture details, the ceased contact 2 months later. Interesting.
See STAC.
I wonder if they'll give away free evil bundled with the OS. :)
;)
They do, it's called Internet Explorer.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)