Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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> Ideas are NOT patentable.
You have a point, but that ignores the fact that there are a _tonne_ of ridiculous patents out there. For example, Unisys' LZW (as used in the GIF image format) patents cover _very_ simple compression techniques which don't deserve a patent. McAfee have patents on web services, and Apple even has patents on desktop theming.
Microsoft holds heaps of nonsense patents. The funny thing is that the idea of software patents is backfiring on them - apparently .NET encroaches on patents held by InterTrust (DRM) and a host of other companies. There is actually a good chance that .NET may be stopped by the courts unless these companies agree to license their IP to MS.
Of course, this whole stupid idea of software patenting is only applicable in the USA.