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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)
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.