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Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents

Posted by kdawson on from the few-selected-gems-from-the-collection dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft is suing Salesforce.com in Seattle federal court, claiming it infringes on nine patents. Two of the patents in question are a 'system and method for providing and displaying a Web page having an embedded menu' and a 'method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display.'" Microsoft says it first notified Salesforce more than a year ago about the alleged infringement.

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  1. Re:Rage inducing by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm fairly sure that if a Model M experiences excessive force, it simply breaks the user and continues on its implacable course...

  2. Re:Leader AND innovator? by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 5, Insightful

    done better by others before. Or do you think the fact that they call it "The Ribbon" is the innovation part of mangling an idea others already had?

    Saying it does not prove it. Show me the prior art. Bear in mind that merely being a tabbed toolbar doesn't make it the same thing. The Ribbon's functionality is what makes it innovative, not the fact that it has tabs.

    Regarding Photosynth, All new ideas are based on research of others. Newton said something about standing on the shoulders of giants, doesn't make his work any less innovative. Photosynth, as a product, was highly innovative.

    it was to catch up with IBM and OS/2

    Are you fucking kidding me? OS/2 was created by Microsoft and IBM together. Microosft wrote nearly all of OS/2 up until OS/2 1.3, and COM and OLE goes back to 1987, the same year OS/2 was released *WITHOUT A GUI OF ANY KIND*.

    Wow, you are ignorant of history. Wow, that's just plain stupid.

    And Xeros Star had nothing like COM or OLE. It's object embedding technolgy was entirely different.

    Even if they were first, it doesnt count because it would actually have to work first

    Now you're just being stupid. Of course it works. Just because it can't protect from every possible exploit doesn't make it useless or "non working". By that argument, just because someone can root a unix box, that means all of it's security doesn't work.

    Wow, I just can't believe what passes for logic these days.

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  3. Re:Bill Gates by tokul · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As such, they're not using this as a revenue model.

    They are using it to suppress competitor. It is still about revenue.