Companies don't always patent ideas with the evil intent of screwing other people out of money. It's fairly common for a company which is under fire from another enity for patent infringement to pull out something like this from their own patent library as a defense/trade. Sometimes a patent which is obviously not enforceable as a money generator will do just fine to deter other, similarly stupid patent claims against the parent company. Any company that ignores opportunities to add to this library is not behaving responsibly to their shareholders.
Yeah yeah, Microsoft is bad, Linux is good. Microsoft is mean, Linux is nice. Microsoft is buggy software, Linux is perfect software. 500 posts by Linux enthusiasts bashing beta software they haven't used proved that to me.
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...at least Microsoft didn't get the bad PR for this one ;)
Companies don't always patent ideas with the evil intent of screwing other people out of money. It's fairly common for a company which is under fire from another enity for patent infringement to pull out something like this from their own patent library as a defense/trade. Sometimes a patent which is obviously not enforceable as a money generator will do just fine to deter other, similarly stupid patent claims against the parent company. Any company that ignores opportunities to add to this library is not behaving responsibly to their shareholders.
Yeah yeah, Microsoft is bad, Linux is good. Microsoft is mean, Linux is nice. Microsoft is buggy software, Linux is perfect software. 500 posts by Linux enthusiasts bashing beta software they haven't used proved that to me.