i4i Says OpenOffice Does Not Infringe Like MS Word

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "After the permanent injunction barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word, many armchair lawyers and pundits wondered how the ruling would affect OpenOffice. The company with the patent, i4i, believes that OpenOffice does not infringe upon it. But lest anyone think that therefore ODF will win out over OOXML, keep in mind that Microsoft has its own broad XML document patent, which issued just two weeks ago, having been filed in December 2004, and they're telling the Supreme Court to apply the Bilski ruling narrowly, so that it doesn't invalidate patents like theirs (and i4i's). After all, unlike most companies and individuals, Microsoft can afford $290 million infringement fines. Then again, given that Microsoft's new patent has only two independent claims (claim #1 and claim #12), and both of those claims 'comprise' something using an 'XML file format for documents associated with an application having a rich set of features,' maybe they wouldn't be that hard to work around if you just make sure any otherwise infringing format is only associated with an application lacking in the feature richness department."

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Re:The MS patent does not affect ODF.

[hairyfeet]

Hey, Linux lover, where did you see me defending MSFT ANYWHERE in my post? I am so damned sick of you Linux zealots having little mod orgies when someone doesn't kiss the RMS booty. If it would have been MSFT that filed in East Texas I would have said the EXACT SAME THING, and anyone who has read any of my posts in the pasts know how much I hate corruption.

So thanks for showing just how big of a hypocrite you really are. It is obvious that you don't give a shit if justice is perverted and we are all screwed as long as the "M$ Windblowz" gets the shaft. Well I hate to break the news to you RMS boy, but patent trolls hurt ALL of us, proprietary and FLOSS alike. It hurts us all because it stifles innovation, and makes getting anything new made here into a giant minefield full of peril. That isn't good for anybody, and how fucking sad that there are so many guys just like you that are willing to support crooks as long as the crooks stick to the side YOU hate. How fucking sad.