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Re: [News] [Rival] Legal Trouble for Microsoft, Vista's True Successor May be XP SP3

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 03 December 2007 07:13 : \____
> 
>> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> 
>>>> Microsoft Sued; Christmas Comes Early for Z4 Technologies
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Microsoft is succumbing to patent trolls today, as they?re
>>>> | being ordered to pay over $140 million for, get this, asking
>>>> | for two passwords.
>>> 
>>> Somebody needs to just shut down the ridiculous US patent system.
>>> (Cue Timmy defending ridiculous patents. Oh wait, he *can't* this
>>> time, since he'd be siding against Microsoft. Oh the dilemma!)
>>> 
>> 
>> Asking for two passwords is patentable?  How stupid is this going to
>> get?  When will someone shut down the USPTO - it's utterly incompetent.
>  
> Shopping with a single click is patentable too, so...
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if the USPTO is more scandalous than G Warmonger B.
> 

Not so far, but one has to wonder.

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