Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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> Hmm ... for 2001, Microsoft received 396 US patents -
> ranking them at #44. Apple received 97 US patents -
> ranking them at #172.
>
> Whether you like Microsoft or not, whether you agree
> with their business practices or not, you CAN'T call
> them a dumb or uncreative company.
These patents may not all be for novel and useful ideas/implementations. Some companies simply submit patent applications for every little thing hoping that they will be awarded many patents to use as leverage against the competition (who may have already implemented said ideas but not have thought/bothered to patent them).