[plug] Microsoft owns your tab key...

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:37, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> Another article linked to that one states that Microsoft has decided to 
> try and patent everything.  There is a blanket patent on .NET does that 
> mean anything created with .NET or derived as in teh thought came from 
> will be a patent infringemenet?
> 

Why is Bill Gates trying to DoS the patent system? Surely he is smarter
than this.


> Marc
> 
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 
> >Well, sort of..
> >
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/microsoft_patents_keyboard_navigation/
> >
> >No prior art? Are they blind?
> >
> >  
> >
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