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"Easy Work-Around" For Microsoft Word's Legal Woes
CWmike writes "Microsoft can likely use an 'easy technical work-around' to sidestep a recent injunction by a Texas federal judge that bars the company from selling Word, a patent attorney said today. 'The injunction doesn't apply to existing product that has already been sold,' said Barry Negrin, a partner with the New York firm Pryor Cashman LLP who has practiced patent and trademark law for 17 years. 'Headlines that say Microsoft can't sell Word are not really true,' said Negrin, pointing out that the injunction granted by US District Court Judge Leonard Davis on Tuesday only prohibits Microsoft from selling Word as it exists now after Oct. 10. 'All Microsoft has to do is disable the custom XML feature, which should be pretty easy to do, then give that a different SKU number from what's been sold so it's easy to distinguish the two versions.'"
Your honor, we've moved all the offending code to hot_coffee.dll, and made sure that it is not accessible to users...
Oh it's very easy for the lawyer to do, he just tells his client to disable it and *poof*! It's done!
Remember, computers run on magical mystical blue smoke that can do ANYTHING as long as you don't let it out!
Word patent troll edition.
We all write our comments in Word. Because the Internet Explorer doesn't have a spell checker.*
* (just a guess)
Wat are u tlaking abot, I dont nede a spellcheker.