Re:Who protects us from MS's patents?
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Who is going to protect us from {fill in the blank} patents..... Just for giggles I followed the link to the uspo and indeed the patent was filed in '97 but granted this past Tuesday. So then I peeked at the one prior to MS's and it was to IBM (6,785,864) and the one after to Adobe (6,785,866)
It's not just MS - it's all the parties picking up rocks to hurl at each other in case a suit is filed against them. During the cold war it was known as MAD (mutually assured destruction).
I'm not as traumatized by the prospect of a Simpson-less world but it is interesting to see the various reactions to the labor issues and the attitudes they reflect. Some of the animation is already source to a Korean company and this discussion Another (bad) Analogy for Outsourcing uses it to fuel some contstrutive thinking...
But for fun, let's pretend that the voices can be outsourced and while you formulate your analagous retort enjoy this spoof.
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Who is going to protect us from {fill in the blank} patents.....
Just for giggles I followed the link to the uspo and indeed the patent was filed in '97 but granted this past Tuesday. So then I peeked at the one prior to MS's and it was to IBM (6,785,864) and the one after to Adobe (6,785,866)
It's not just MS - it's all the parties picking up rocks to hurl at each other in case a suit is filed against them. During the cold war it was known as MAD (mutually assured destruction).
But for fun, let's pretend that the voices can be outsourced and while you formulate your analagous retort enjoy this spoof.