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Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-so-torn dept.

eldavojohn writes "A patent issued in 2003 called 'Method and system for demultiplexing a first sequence of packet components to identify specific components wherein subsequent components are processed without re-identifying components' is now owned by Implicit Networks, who has recently claimed Windows 7 infringes upon it with its Filtering Platform. This is used in Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Implicit is seeking a jury trial and damages. A shocking turn of events; you actually want to cheer for Microsoft this time as Implicit is nothing more than a patent licensing company (troll) and has done battle with Sun, AMD, Intel and NVIDIA."

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  1. What goes around comes around... by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am not going to side with MS as they are the ones that caused this landscape of nasty litigation.

  2. You make your bed, now you get to sleep in it by thisnamestoolong · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft has been quite the nasty little patent troll itself in the past -- I do hope they win this one, but it is always amusing to see them get a taste of their own medicine.

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  3. Re:Legal System Flaw by commodore64_love · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    >>>"Microsoft and Vista Suck" is not really any sort of intelligent statement

    How about? "I plugged my USB drive into my brothers 1/2 gig Vista machine, and it took 5 minutes to display a directory." Does that qualify as intelligent and useful criticism?

    >>>Microsoft has done a lot of good and are continuing to.

    I would argue that most of the "good" was invented by other companies like Atari, Apple, Commodore, and Amiga. MS merely played "catch up" implementing ideas that has already existed for many years prior. For example - color displays and music-quality sound. Atari computers had 128 colors in 1979. MS-based computers did not get the same functionality until eight years later. Both Atari and Commodore produced music-quality sound in 1982. MS-based computers went "beep" or "boop"

    Or preemptive multitasking. Amiga had that in 1985. MS didn't do it until Windows 95 (and only in limited fashion).

    - Mosaic was the first PC/Mac browser.
    - Netscape extended the web with audio and video capabilities in 1994.
    - MS didn't arrive to the party until 1996.

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