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No More Word

By stufftha_user
August 12, 2009
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A Texas Judge just decided Microsoft cannot sell Word in the US because it saves data as XML. They are expected to pay $200 million dollars.

That just happened.

  1. Every successful software company will eventually be sued for infringing some patent.
  2. Thus, every successful product “violates a patent”, i.e. builds on ideas from some earlier work.
  3. Since every software product builds on ideas from previous generations (or as lawyers say, violates a patent), no software is patentable.

I believe we should eliminate all software patents. Judges, lawyers, and juries lack the technical expertise to understand why patents like this are so silly.

Update

In addition to being fined $200 million dollars for allegedly violating someone else’s word processing XML patent, Microsoft was recently granted patent 7571169 for…saving Word docs as XML.

Posted on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 8:16 am in Opinion, Software Development.

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