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The patentsThe patentsPosted Aug 12, 2003 9:50 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: The patents by jbh Parent article: A brief look at IBM's counterclaims
Am I right that patent #4,821,211 covers (for example) the Start Menu editing functionality in Windows '95 and later or the KDE Control Center? It's really scary that someone tries to enforce a patent like this, even if it is done for the "right cause"... I've just read an
article that Microsoft has to pay about 520 million USD to a Eolas and UCLA, because they use one of Eolas's patents in Internet Explorer. I wonder when will the big companies wake up to the fact, that software patents are bad - even for them - and lobby to abolish this stupid practice.
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