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Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights
angry tapir writes "A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past Windows operating systems. The Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Windows that use the Chinese fonts, including Windows XP. Microsoft plans to appeal the case. Microsoft originally licensed Zhongyi's intellectual property more than a decade ago for use in the Chinese version of Windows 95, according to Zhongyi. Zhongyi argues that agreement applied only to Windows 95, but that Microsoft continued to use the intellectual property in eight versions of Windows from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Vista and Windows 7 are not involved."
MS should just stop selling Windows in China, it isn't like anybody actually buys it over there anyway.
Will the capitalist running dog Steve Balmer kowtow to the Chinese after writing a self-criticism?
Pass the eggrolls.....this is going to get interesting.
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In most places, the would-be victim would then be up on a manslaughter charge, which I think is not the analogy you were shooting for. Maybe try something with cars?
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Why fight it? It seems like a much cheaper solution would be for Microsoft to pay a fee for each copy of Windows sold in China.
How is this insightful? He didn't even make a coherent point?
Are you saying MS doesn't give a shit about IP?
Why does that matter when they'reneither a sovereign nation nor a court of law, thereby making it impossible for their opinion to be interchangeable with the court of law of a sovereign nation?
Please try to ACTUALLY MAKE A POINT in the future, you totally failed here.
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Without seeing the actual documents it's hard to tell.
And you can't see the actual documents because they're in Chinese and the fonts are copyright?
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"So I think the delay in prosecution was likely reasonable."
Who cares what you think, you openly lie all thetime, like here for instance
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1447608&cid=30137984
So, again,why should anyone care what you think when you'll openly lie about something everyone else can see in black and white?
I mean, you try to flame someone for not getting the point, when YOU YOURSELF COMPLETELY FAIL TO READ THE POSTS THAT PROVE YOU WRONG IN THE VERY THREAD YOU'RE REPLYING TO despite claiming you had?
Why would anyone care what you think?
It took them over 10 years to acquire enough legit Windows licenses for their company to not be countersued.
In any case, I would have thought Microsoft could simply use the defence that it never sells Windows in that country, since the Chinese prefer to pirate it. ;-)