Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Korean court rebuffs Microsoft in patents case
>
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>| Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in
>| Korea, after a court decision in a patent dispure raised
>| the prospect of Office being taken off the shelves in the
>| country.
>|
>| Microsoft said it was continuing to dispute the patent's
>| validity. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/ms_korea_court/
>
> The hypocrisy.
I found this quote of interest:
| According to the Korean Times, the country?s supreme court
| on Friday upheld patents held by two Korean academics over
| technology for automatically switching between English and
| Korean. The academics reckon the Microsoft lifted their
| language switching technology in Office. They are demanding
| the offending versions of Office are pulled from the market
| and are seeking around $75m in damages from the vendor.
It seems that Microsoft has some issues to deal with.
| Korea has not been the easiest market for Microsoft in
| recent years. It has been forced to ship a stripped down
| version of XP in the country, sans IM and media software.
South Korea has done what any proper government would do, and
that to protect its citizens and industries.
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