• Microsoft Banned from Selling Word in the US
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in the computer world this is almost equal to banning a major ballpoint pen production such as Pillot that absolutely everyone uses everywhere.
[QUOTE] Texas judge [/QUOTE] Do I need to say more?
[QUOTE=Cidem;16648936]Where are you from, smartass?[/QUOTE] China
Just further proving the futility of the legal system. But hey, lets be honest, shit's better here than in England, Germany, and Australia right now.
Fuck Word, I use Celtx, or notepad.
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;16653022]Fuck Word, I use Celtx, or notepad.[/QUOTE] Those infringe in with the patent too.
Okay then they're just going to sell you Microsoft office and say word comes with it for free or something. Buy Excel now and get Microsoft word absolutely free!
Next No one will be able to buy windows because it has a picture viewer, and the pictures were made in Photoshop
Wait. Wait... What the heck?
[B][I]TEXAS -[/I][/B] a shittyass state that Aurora93 happens to live in
The judge is an idiot, but really who cares? Why would you buy Microsoft word when you can just download open office for free?
I laughed so hard when i saw: [quote=A stupid guy]In the words of i4i, the injunction “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML”[/quote]
I'm doing homework from cell phone, email .txt files to teacher :3:
[QUOTE=will721;16659696]The judge is an idiot, but really who cares? Why would you buy Microsoft word when you can just download open office for free?[/QUOTE] Because Microsoft Word is better.
What the actual fuck? I mean, I don't use, or rather enjoy using Word, but goddamn, what a stupid case.
Honestly not surprising. There's some truly terrifying patents for video game related stuff, like really really basic stuff. Like health bars and double jumping, I'll try and find the article with them.
A great day to be a Canadian
[QUOTE=Beau Phos;16659751]I'm doing homework from cell phone, email .txt files to teacher :3:[/QUOTE] Real mean don't put extensions on their text files. I did that last year at school because I hated my printer and refused to use it, so I sent my teacher text files with no extension. :3:
[QUOTE=Xesum;16647735]And is in the basement.[/QUOTE] Yes, because people who uses Vim or any other text editor are losers who live in their mother's basement. How fucking retarded are you guys, seriously? That's like saying anyone who uses Photoshop over MSPaint or Firefox over IE, is a basement dweller.
World's getting dumber, welcome to Idiocracy.
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;16645985]Who gives a shit, it's microsoft we're talking here. You can [b]always[/b] do without microsoft products. What, the world stops because we can't use their software? There's always Openoffice, or word perfect. There's probably dozens of text manipulation out there just waiting for us to pick it up. I think I won't lose any sleep over microsoft word being gone. Fuck it.[/QUOTE] WordPerfect sucks ass.
[QUOTE=benos;16662350]World's getting dumber, welcome to Idiocracy.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I forgot. Intelligence is frowned upon.
[QUOTE=Lankist;16646114]Also they aren't barred from selling word, they are barred from selling any version of word that opens XML documents.[/QUOTE] Doesn't that mean Excel is banned?
As much as I think M$ is evil and love it when they get owned by the legal system, this is just sad. Software patents = Dumb, outdated shit.
What the unrighteous Christ? [editline]03:25AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Aurora93;16659022][B][I]TEXAS -[/I][/B] a shittyass state that Aurora93 happens to live in[/QUOTE] Yessssss...
Fucking...shit.
[QUOTE=Jerichode;16651302]Judge is obviously a Mac user.[/QUOTE] That's ridiculous, plist files are XML files.
[QUOTE=ToxicWolf;16645833][url=http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/word-patent/]Source[/url] What the fuck is going on. Rate a Box if you think the Judge is a fucking idiot.[/QUOTE] [b]WHAT?![/b] What the fuck are those retards thinking?
Fucking ancestors! >:V They always fear the innovations of their time. Comics, Rock and Roll and now Computers.
[QUOTE=MovingSalad;16645985]Who gives a shit, it's microsoft we're talking here. You can [b]always[/b] do without microsoft products. What, the world stops because we can't use their software? There's always Openoffice, or word perfect. There's probably dozens of text manipulation out there just waiting for us to pick it up. I think I won't lose any sleep over microsoft word being gone. Fuck it.[/QUOTE] Let's see you doing w/o Windows.
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