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Microsoft Admonished by U.S. District Court Judge
An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle Times reports that the judge in the z4 'product activation' patent infringement case has increased the jury's original $115 million verdict against Microsoft by $25 million. Both Microsoft and Autodesk (another defendant) were admonished by the judge for misconduct. The judge wrote 'The Court concludes that Defendants attempted to bury the relevant 107 exhibits ... in a massive pile of decoys' and called one failure to disclose evidence 'an intentional attempt by Defendants to mislead z4 and this Court.'"
I bet they can.
No sig for now.
"judge wrote 'The Court concludes that Defendants attempted to bury the relevant 107 exhibits ... in a massive pile of decoys'
I see that Microsoft is still retaining Elmer F.U.D. for his legal services.
Where were you when the voynix came?
You're misreading it...
It's critical that no one person in a company ever appears to be above a code of ethics.
Maybe MS's code of ethics doesn't cover lying and theiving...
Or maybe they're planning on adding it in MS Ethics 2.0.
I just had a great movie idea.
After installing update 919951 which patched a critical vulnerability in MS Ethics 1.0 service pack 1 some customers have reported problems when MS Ethics fails to detect lying and/or theiving. Microsoft has announced a new version of security update 919951 on August 22, 2006. This new version was to address this problem for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1.
Microsoft is also aware of public reports that this issue could lead to a buffer overrun condition for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1 and who have applied security update 918899. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability at this point, nor are we aware of customer impact at this point. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports.
-- original source: Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 unexpectedly exits after you install the 918899 update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/en-us
You mised the part of the patent application that specified "on the internet." That makes it both unique and non-obvious, because doing anything on the internet is completely different than doing it off the internet. Hasn't /. taught you anything about the USPTO this past decade? ;-)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
They have ethics. Just not ones you like.
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Microsoft - mislead a judge?!?!?
Preposterous!! Never in a million (well okay, ten) years!!
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
Or maybe they're planning on adding it in MS Ethics 2.0.
Now you're just being silly.
Everyone knows that you should always wait for version 3 of any Microsoft product.
Maybe MS's code of ethics doesn't cover lying and theiving...
That's not a bug in their code. It's a feature.
Developers: We can use your help.
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As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.