US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word 403
oranghutan writes "A judge in a Texas court has given Microsoft 60 days to comply with an order to stop selling Word products in their existing state as the result of a patent infringement suit filed by i4i. According to the injunction, Microsoft is forbidden from selling Word products that let people create XML documents, which both the 2003 and 2007 versions let you do. Michael Cherry, an analyst quoted in the article, said, 'It's going to take a long time for this kind of thing to get sorted out.' Few believe the injunction will actually stop Word from being sold because there are ways of working around it. In early 2009, a jury in the Texas court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i $200 million for infringing on the patent. ZDNet has a look at the patent itself, saying it 'sounds a bit generic.'"
Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:5, Funny)
No, they'll probably have Office Texas 2009, which is like Office 2007, except that it has the XML stuff cut out, and a new language code added: en_TX
Re:This is nuts. (Score:2, Funny)
O'Reilly "Learning XML Patents"? (Score:5, Funny)
So when does the O'Reilly "Learning XML Patents" book hit the shelves and what animal will grace the cover?
Re:Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
The animal will be some sort of pond life (Score:4, Funny)
To represent patent lawyers everywhere.
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Would anybody miss East Texas? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm getting to like the new ribbons, but sometimes the location of a function seems a tad obscure....
So, instead of finding function X in obscure location Y, now you instead have to find it in obscure location Z? ;-)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:5, Funny)
new language code added: en_TX
Finally spellcheck will quit flagging "Y'all"
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Re:Does that mean... (Score:5, Funny)
Parody software is protected speech
Re:O'Reilly "Learning XML Patents"? (Score:5, Funny)
what animal will grace the cover?
A leech.
Re:Live by sword... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah man, bettern' havin' all them dang up danm fancy'bagger $10 spellin' correctin' red word dang 'ol squiggles itellyouwhat.
Re:"sounds a bit generic" (Score:4, Funny)
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
I'm confused (Score:3, Funny)
Who are we supposed to favor in this fight? Microsoft or the patent troll?
I can't quite figure it out myself.
Re:Does that mean... (Score:1, Funny)
"Djeet yet? Nawp, djew? Nawp. Ya awntto? Aiught."---is perfectly valid in TexWord2k7.
(For those that don't speak "Texan" or "country" the above sentence was a conversation between two people who were hungry: Did you eat yet? No, have you? No. Would you like to? Alright.)
Re:PENIS PENIS HAHAHA PENIS (Score:5, Funny)
If we have sunk to new depths, it is by having giants stand upon our shoulders
Re:Does that mean... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:For those that are happy... (Score:4, Funny)
If this is held up then XML looks to be a dead format
well, every cloud....
Re:"sounds a bit generic" (Score:3, Funny)
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
Ahh, delicious baby in hot tub stew....
Re:Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Sad thing is... I am from Ontario and I understood it perfectly.
--- Mr. DOS
Lets keep patenting thoughts (Score:3, Funny)
That is moving the industry forward and creating lots of jobs for us techies. I pity the lawyers that are starving due to this innovative environment that is being created by software patents.
Re:O'Reilly "Learning XML Patents"? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:PENIS PENIS HAHAHA PENIS (Score:4, Funny)
If we have sunk to new depths, it is by having giants stand upon our shoulders
I thought it was from standing in the footprints of giants.
If a giant tries to stand on your shoulders, you'll probably find yourself in the footprint fairly fast, albeit not standing.
Re:Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Finally spellcheck will quit flagging "Y'all"
That feature is already available in Texas. When the spelling checker pops up and offers the choices "Accept, Add To Dictionary, Ignore, Ignore Once", you shoot the computer.