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| Microsoft banned from selling MS Word in US; Oh My Word! =0 | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 12 2009, 02:44 PM (749 Views) | |
| Nicolas | Aug 12 2009, 02:44 PM Post #1 |
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I just read this article about Microsoft having violated a patent owned by a Canadian company to help its word processor (Microsoft Word) in rendering XML documents. As such Microsoft Word cannot be sold in the United States or imported from another country. Of course, Microsoft plans to appeal the decisions - but that's just insane! You'd think a company as large and well established as Microsoft wouldn't fall into violating a copyright (and according to the court ruling it was "willingly violated") so easily. I had to google it because I wasn't sure the first article was entirely accurate, but it appears to be the truth! So what do you think this means for Microsoft, Microsoft Word and possibly for i4i (the company MIcrosoft 'stole' from)? Do you think Microsoft will be successful in trying to have the decision overturned? In all honesty - I think if Microsoft was taken down in court once (with all the power and might of their software empire and the funds that that affords them) then I don't think they have much of a chance at giving it another go and winning this time. |
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| Fission | Aug 12 2009, 03:03 PM Post #2 |
SRS BSNS
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*puts it in my list of "things I'm not really surprised about"* |
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| cvn-tv-dip | Aug 12 2009, 03:07 PM Post #3 |
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That's actually surprising to me. Imagine if this verdict goes through... |
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| Fission | Aug 12 2009, 03:10 PM Post #4 |
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Then people will just have to find alternatives, the same thing with everything else? Really, the stuff Microsoft does just doesn't surprise me anymore, ever since the EU's ruling on the pre-packaging of Internet Explorer in Windows I for one rarely use MS Word; I just load up Google Docs. |
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| Christian | Aug 12 2009, 03:12 PM Post #5 |
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I just use Microsoft Works Word Processor, it comes packaged with Windows and is virtually the same thing. |
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| cvn-tv-dip | Aug 12 2009, 03:15 PM Post #6 |
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Microsoft Office for one is something I like to use. It can be annoying at times (with Word's auto-formatting), but it does come with quite a lot of things you can do, so I consider it useful and handy. If Word is banned, it would affect people quite a bit. |
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| Lindsey | Aug 12 2009, 03:30 PM Post #7 |
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Woah. No, I agree with you Nicolas. I'm surprised too. You would think they'd have a lawyer to read contracts like this with a fine-toothed comb. |
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| Delirium | Aug 12 2009, 03:33 PM Post #8 |
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I only have a preference to Microsoft Word because the entire school network uses it so it makes it impossible to transfer your documents from home to school. I'm sure they'll find a way around this somehow, anyway. |
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| Viral. | Aug 12 2009, 03:54 PM Post #9 |
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What if.. . they ban MS Word, and then people who use IE are like "omg this is made by Microsoft and it has words, it's illegal" and then they *try to delete IE from their computer, but when failing to do so, they just download an alternative such as Firefox instead. Then, we'll see IE browser usage plummet and then it no longer becomes pre-packaged and we never have to code for it again. Maybe, just maybe  .
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| dark lord war | Aug 13 2009, 07:17 PM Post #10 |
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Wow that's amazing Nick. I was so surprised to see this here. I never would have thought that possible for them. Wow |
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| Aaron | Aug 13 2009, 08:29 PM Post #11 |
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Apperinty it seems to be one of those patents which should not of been issued since it is so broad and would affect any word processor which saves in an XML format and can edit XML files. The news site also confuses copyright and patent, a copyright applies to works of a person a patent is how to do something. |
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| barky | Aug 14 2009, 07:58 AM Post #12 |
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I'll bet lots just save documents in word as .doc -- and not the docx etc which is XML |
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| lightsup55 | Aug 14 2009, 03:00 PM Post #13 |
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I don't think this will affect anyone in this world who knows how to get their hands on a FREE word processor alternative, such as:
Edited by lightsup55, Aug 14 2009, 03:05 PM.
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| cvn-tv-dip | Aug 14 2009, 06:53 PM Post #14 |
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Many people buy computers with some programs like Office built in though. |
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| Chris | Aug 14 2009, 10:46 PM Post #15 |
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Patents and their owners get so ridiculous. They turn into an extreme way of "taddle telling" on someone when they do something and you don't like it. I can understand someone wanting to have the right to say that they did something first, but to say that no one can do anything similar at all.. that is just nonsense. Unless Microsoft just outright copied a source or something and manipulated it some to not be the "same" (which I doubt they have, since they are trying to fight it) they shouldn't be sued for incorporating the idea into their software. |
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