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Microsoft Leveraging iPod Patent?
willie3204 was one of several readers who noticed this story about Microsoft cashing in on the iPod Patent that they apparently beat Apple to. Since this song looks to be played to the tune of $10/iPod, I imagine someone will be singing the appeal song.
... is shit. The $10 figure is almost certainly a coke-fuelled[0] invention of some lazy-ass semi-literate tech-journalist needing desperately to fill space, who's noticed that such a patent exists (probably read it on some other tech news site, but felt the story needed spicing up). Until MS or Apple actually make a statement on it, this is just moronic conjecture.
[0] I mean Coca-Cola, obviously.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
"Our patent system (flawed as it may be) works on rewarding patent to the first to invent, not the first to register for patent."
First to _invent_, not to implement. If Microsoft can produce documentation that they thought of this idea well in advance of Apple's iPod release, they can still retain the patent.
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.