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$1.5B Fine Overturned For Microsoft
ddrichardson writes "Following up on an earlier story, Microsoft's $1.5bn fine in the case with Alcatel-Lucent has been overturned. Microsoft are claiming a "victory for consumers". From the article: 'A US court has overturned a decision ordering Microsoft to pay phone firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (£777m) for infringing music patents. The federal judge in San Diego reversed a jury's decision which had ruled that Microsoft's Media Player software infringed on two Alcatel patents.'"
Geesh - You're new to slashdot aren't you?
See - the way it works is this: Wait for everyone to post Anti-MS rants and _then_ loose your comments among the many number of them.
First posts always deserve a "First Post" message. I'm disappointed.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
Nothing funny, nothing insightful, just same news, different day.
Well, I hate to say, there was a time where Slashdot was really about "news for nerds, stuff that (doesn't) matter (all that much but we love it)". I guess the nerds have become working professionals, supporting families, concerned with their mortgages and 401Ks, because it's been literally years since Slashdot has stopped being funny, insightful or interesting. I mean sure, regularly there's the occasional good story, but it's nowhere near as often as what it used to be.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Actually, that's an interesting grammatical issue (since Microsoft, not being a human being, really can't CLAIM anything at all). While it would have been better to say "Microsoft is claiming a 'victory for consumers'," it would have been even more grammatically correct to say "Microsoft representatives are claiming a 'victory for consumers'." I guess someone could also make a defense for "Microsoft are claiming a 'victory for consumers'" by arguing that a corporation should be more accurately regarded as a plural grouping of employees than a singular monolithic entity.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.