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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"
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.
I wonder if they'll give away free evil bundled with the OS. :)
;)
They do, it's called Internet Explorer.
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