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.

Comments

Do No Evil and MSFT

[agsharad]

Can anyone imagine Google trying to pull off something like this? Yet, every so often, we do see articles touting that Google is slowly but steadily becoming more MSFT-like in their sense of ethics.

At present they are far, far away from that, but who knows what will happen in 10-15 years? While being optimistic in the matter, it might be prudent to keep your eyes open.

Re:Prior Art

[Anonymous Coward]

PHarmaceutical, not Farmaceutic. Sheesh, read some news reports or get a dictionary...

Re:Prior Art

[droptone]

+1 Informative? WTF?

According to dictionary.com "informative" means:
1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
2: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform
3: providing or conveying information

I suppose strictly speaking the post conveyed information, but it neither was relevant nor important. In accords with the first definiton it seems to CAUSE ignorance by focusing on an ad hominem attack on the previous poster's spelling and hoping to infer something about the post's actual content. Hopefully the AC is from somewhere other than the U.S., so we (in the U.S.) can claim we are spreading something. It's these sorts of posts that cause one to loose faith in humanity.