from http://www.theonion.com/articles/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes,599/
news says -
In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones—the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs—unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
This is totally a monopolistic approach. I request to boycott Microsoft and its products from Indian government. I do not know how this will be possible but this step is highly needed.
Open Source Products are better.
Update :
That news is old. I do not know that is valid or not. I was confused between current news and the old
current news is this - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/203248/Paul-Allen-Files-Patent-Suit-Against-Apple-Google-Yahoo-Others?from=rss
"A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit alleging 11 technology companies are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab that Allen financed more than a decade ago. Named in the lawsuit: Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube subsidiary. The suit doesn't name Microsoft, Amazon.com or other tech companies in Seattle where Allen is based, and it doesn't estimate a damage amount. The suit lists violations of four patents (PDF) for technology that appear to be key components of the operations of the companies — and that of e-commerce and Internet search companies in general."
news says -
In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones—the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs—unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
This is totally a monopolistic approach. I request to boycott Microsoft and its products from Indian government. I do not know how this will be possible but this step is highly needed.
Open Source Products are better.
Update :
That news is old. I do not know that is valid or not. I was confused between current news and the old
current news is this - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/203248/Paul-Allen-Files-Patent-Suit-Against-Apple-Google-Yahoo-Others?from=rss
"A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit alleging 11 technology companies are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab that Allen financed more than a decade ago. Named in the lawsuit: Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube subsidiary. The suit doesn't name Microsoft, Amazon.com or other tech companies in Seattle where Allen is based, and it doesn't estimate a damage amount. The suit lists violations of four patents (PDF) for technology that appear to be key components of the operations of the companies — and that of e-commerce and Internet search companies in general."
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