"I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006.The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time. I spent a full year working on a feature which should've been designed, implemented and tested in a week."
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The one where they've never gone after another company for software patent violations?
They did.. once.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39280317,00.htm
Edited 2006-11-28 18:11
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The one where they've never gone after another company for software patent violations?
So you are claiming that Microsoft only intends to sue End Users and FLOSS developers? Or what did you intend to say?
Personally, I don't think End Users and FLOSS developers (or developers in general) have anything to fear in that regard.
However, Microsoft has several times sued companies for patent infringement and has been sued several times for patent infringement as well. It's a part of the broken US patent system. Get some patents and use them as protection against the other guys who use patents as protection against the other guys who use patents as protection against .... you get the picture, right?
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2006-02-22
quote "We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI." ... and copied it.
Mmm makes Microsoft's patent position interesting.