Gepubliceerd op maandag 25 juli 2005
Emotionele octrooi-aanvrage
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Mark Taylor van het Open Source Consortium: "I would have expected to see something like this suggested by one of our more immature community members as a joke on Slashdot, and probably would have chuckled at the absurdity of the notion. We now appear to be living in a world where even the most laughable paranoid fantasies about commercially controlling simple social concepts are being outdone in the real world by well-funded armies of lawyers on behalf of some of the most powerful companies on the planet,"
Microsoft schijnt voor haar 'vinding' nog geen aanvrage bij het EOB te hebben ingediend. Lees hier meer.