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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."
Don't feed the trolls, dude.
Your point still stands... obviously they have chosen to wait this long to act in order to get a bigger settlement out of Microsoft.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Reasonable force would probably involve you not kicking him when he was on the floor and stopped being a threat.
You think someone being on the floor makes them no longer a threat?
What consolation is that, when you deem them no longer a threat, so you decide to just walk home, and as you've turned their back to them, they pull out a concealed pistol and shoot you down?
Naturally, you have no way of knowing for sure whether they're armed or not. Reasonable caution would be to expect treat it as the worse case scenario in that regard: shoot first, ask questions later, it's the only way you can really adequately defend your safety.