[ale] Segue from MS threatening the community

[rev.null at gmail.com (Rev. Johnny Healey)]

Virtually anything can be patented in the US, including the user interface.
One-Click is a good example of this; you don't need to see the source code
to know that the patent has been violated.

On 5/15/07, Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
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>
> All the harrumphing and such about MS announcing patent
> infringement leads me to a question which should be asked
> of a lawyer, but I'll ask it here. How do you show patent
> infringement by software without the source code?
>
> Ok. That marks me as legally simple minded, but I am
> curious about the concept.
>
> Thanks for the bandwidth
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