(new) Patent Wars and Antitrust

Steve Gibson: "WMF flaw was a deliberate back door". - (Andrew Grygus) - (30) - Jan. 13, 2006, 07:13:31 PM EST

He needs to adjust his tinfoil IMHO -NT - (altmann) - (9) - Jan. 13, 2006, 08:24:32 PM EST

He's got a pretty good case - (bepatient) - (8) - Jan. 13, 2006, 09:28:28 PM EST

Yup - (broomberg) - Jan. 13, 2006, 09:46:45 PM EST

Is there more in it that what was in the transcript? - (altmann) - (3) - Jan. 14, 2006, 03:33:27 AM EST

Where'd you find a transcript? - (jb4) - (2) - Jan. 15, 2006, 12:56:46 PM EST

On GRC - (Another Scott) - Jan. 15, 2006, 01:00:50 PM EST

Podcast is just an MP3 -NT - (drewk) - Jan. 15, 2006, 08:56:10 PM EST

A guy over at SysInternals is said to be . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Jan. 14, 2006, 08:05:11 PM EST

Sysinternals verdict: Not a back door - (altmann) - (1) - Jan. 21, 2006, 04:21:27 AM EST

Just stupidity and incompetence, eh? SOP for M$. -NT - (n3jja) - Jan. 21, 2006, 08:31:13 AM EST

Seems very unlikely to me - (JayMehaffey) - (13) - Jan. 16, 2006, 03:18:21 PM EST

But thats just as bad - (bepatient) - (5) - Jan. 16, 2006, 04:07:08 PM EST

Do I unnderstand this right? - (drewk) - (3) - Jan. 16, 2006, 05:03:27 PM EST

did $MS understand multithreading when they wrote it? -NT - (boxley) - Jan. 16, 2006, 05:17:35 PM EST

It is part of that - (JayMehaffey) - Jan. 16, 2006, 06:38:38 PM EST

No. - (broomberg) - Jan. 16, 2006, 09:08:08 PM EST

I would say not quite as bad - (JayMehaffey) - Jan. 16, 2006, 06:43:55 PM EST

Microsoft have an explanation. - (static) - (6) - Jan. 18, 2006, 01:02:33 AM EST

Artful Dodging - (admin) - (1) - Jan. 16, 2006, 11:01:16 PM EST

Link fixed. - (static) - Jan. 18, 2006, 01:08:26 AM EST

I like how that "blog" doesn't allow comments, too. -NT - (admin) - Jan. 16, 2006, 11:02:31 PM EST

If it's brought forward from legacy stuff . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Jan. 17, 2006, 02:41:55 AM EST

Dang. Beat me to it. That was my first thought. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Jan. 17, 2006, 11:03:40 AM EST

No default program for WMF = No "critical" vulnerability -NT - (altmann) - Jan. 17, 2006, 08:29:52 PM EST

Interesting "analysis" / Guess-of-motives - (Ashton) - (5) - Jan. 21, 2006, 06:42:09 AM EST

Shields up is a waste of time. - (pwhysall) - (4) - Jan. 21, 2006, 11:24:14 AM EST

Elitist smugness - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 29, 2006, 06:10:34 AM EST

Whatever, Ash. - (pwhysall) - (2) - Jan. 29, 2006, 07:52:18 AM EST

Sorry Ash, but Peter is right here. -NT - (inthane-chan) - Jan. 29, 2006, 10:43:04 AM EST

I acknowledge those valld criticisms. - (Ashton) - Jan. 30, 2006, 05:35:00 AM EST

<reagan>Well, there you go again.</reagan> - (drewk) - (6) - Jan. 11, 2006, 06:53:14 PM EST

Just snap one together - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Jan. 11, 2006, 07:12:03 PM EST

No it hasn't - (drewk) - (4) - Jan. 11, 2006, 07:15:03 PM EST

I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to argue in my spare time -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Jan. 11, 2006, 07:59:04 PM EST

That'll be another 5 quid, please. -NT - (folkert) - (2) - Jan. 12, 2006, 12:12:44 PM EST

I'll do the stupid thing first... - (jb4) - (1) - Jan. 12, 2006, 02:26:53 PM EST

I just wanted to do the Hustle! -NT - (tuberculosis) - Jan. 12, 2006, 03:03:02 PM EST

All your FAT are belong to us! - (jb4) - (4) - Jan. 11, 2006, 03:33:57 PM EST

Open Source is not the target at the moment - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - Jan. 11, 2006, 03:49:36 PM EST

*chuckle* - (imric) - (2) - Jan. 11, 2006, 03:53:14 PM EST

Why do you think they're not doing it? -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Jan. 11, 2006, 05:17:14 PM EST

Condom has a hole? -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 11, 2006, 07:35:21 PM EST

InfoWorld is at it again - (drewk) - (15) - Jan. 3, 2006, 06:51:18 PM EST

*shakes head* - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 3, 2006, 09:20:35 PM EST

Good Ole UninformedWorld -NT - (n3jja) - (13) - Jan. 4, 2006, 05:39:10 PM EST

Did you know that InfoWorld is a single woman? - (ben_tilly) - (12) - Jan. 4, 2006, 06:11:12 PM EST

Sure it isn't Miss Take? - (a6l6e6x) - (11) - Jan. 6, 2006, 12:08:27 AM EST

Miss Inga Lynk -NT - (jbrabeck) - Jan. 6, 2006, 09:13:54 AM EST

Mrs Dee Point -NT - (jbrabeck) - Jan. 6, 2006, 09:14:19 AM EST

Miss Ann Thrope? -NT - (jb4) - Jan. 6, 2006, 09:54:08 AM EST

Myth! Myth! Yeth? -NT - (imqwerky) - (7) - Jan. 6, 2006, 10:55:29 AM EST

Yes - (Steve Lowe) - (4) - Jan. 6, 2006, 11:41:43 AM EST

And Yaz... -NT - (jb4) - Jan. 6, 2006, 12:54:09 PM EST

Ah yesss.... 'Inclusion' dot net: - (Ashton) - (2) - Jan. 7, 2006, 03:26:34 AM EST

Yathink it's the same ones? - (CRConrad) - (1) - Jan. 7, 2006, 05:50:48 PM EST

Nope - (broomberg) - Jan. 7, 2006, 06:00:35 PM EST

That summons memories of the Muppet Movie. :-) -NT - (static) - (1) - Jan. 8, 2006, 08:33:07 PM EST

Funny you should mention that... - (Yendor) - Jan. 8, 2006, 08:34:02 PM EST

Microsoft innovation. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - Dec. 16, 2005, 05:32:16 PM EST

It's not like they claimed otherwise -NT - (altmann) - (3) - Dec. 16, 2005, 08:05:36 PM EST

A fine point. - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Dec. 16, 2005, 08:46:11 PM EST

Suing over software patents garners little sympathy from me. - (altmann) - (1) - Dec. 17, 2005, 02:03:06 AM EST

Microsoft.hoist(Microsoft.petard); - (jb4) - Dec. 19, 2005, 01:15:51 PM EST

Cringely Deconstructs The Gates/Ozzie Memos - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Nov. 9, 2005, 03:36:44 PM EST

CNN Money article - (SpiceWare) - Nov. 9, 2005, 05:58:18 PM EST

Perhaps they're hoping the XBox, etc. will make up for it. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Nov. 9, 2005, 01:16:57 PM EST

Their stock problem is not deliberate. - (Andrew Grygus) - Nov. 9, 2005, 01:44:26 PM EST

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to Microsoft . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 27, 2005, 12:35:52 PM EDT

That and the exclusion of other software requirement - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 28, 2005, 11:15:27 PM EDT

Yeah, I read that later. - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 28, 2005, 11:47:32 PM EDT

Dave Winer thinks Microsoft is in the right about its XML. - (static) - (40) - Oct. 13, 2005, 09:56:07 PM EDT

Dave Winer is pretty much a numbskull anyway. - (CRConrad) - Oct. 13, 2005, 03:50:00 AM EDT

He's surprised? - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:21:47 AM EDT

You get the Bob Award for the day. - (Yendor) - (24) - Oct. 13, 2005, 08:44:34 AM EDT

We need a weecode for this. -NT - (pwhysall) - (4) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:47:43 AM EDT

No, we REALLY don't - (hnick) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2005, 11:36:02 AM EDT

Hear, Hear! -NT - (imric) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:00:59 PM EDT

How about us polite pedants? -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:08:56 PM EDT

Well, if you're polite enough, you won't need it... :) -NT - (hnick) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:40:08 PM EDT

It's a special case - (ChrisR) - (17) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:22:33 PM EDT

Except that the possessive of "it" is "its" not "it's" - (drewk) - (5) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:36:22 PM EDT

Not quite the right reason - (jake123) - (4) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:40:31 PM EDT

Its? It's stupid! - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:55:27 PM EDT

Not that hard to tell - (jake123) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:57:18 PM EDT

It's ambiguous - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 13, 2005, 05:59:55 PM EDT

Ahh, YAN argument for Victor Borge's Audible Punctuation :-) -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 13, 2005, 06:26:49 PM EDT

Fascinating, how so many native speakers of English... - (CRConrad) - (9) - Oct. 15, 2005, 05:08:38 PM EDT

Hey.. it's like this-yere - (Ashton) - Oct. 15, 2005, 10:41:35 PM EDT

its is a polit way to write "grunt" -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 15, 2005, 10:42:45 PM EDT

I's will do it at each and every possible opportunity now.. - (hnick) - (6) - Oct. 16, 2005, 09:03:14 AM EDT

(I think we found Hugh's button.) - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2005, 10:19:30 AM EDT

MWHAAHAAAA!! -NT - (hnick) - Oct. 16, 2005, 11:47:33 AM EDT

"Pisces", perhaps? HTH! - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:03:26 PM EDT

...as in "off"? - (pwhysall) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:08:42 PM EDT

Halleluiah! - (imqwerky) - Oct. 16, 2005, 05:39:23 PM EDT

Yabut.. the scary part is - - (Ashton) - Oct. 17, 2005, 06:07:56 AM EDT

Ooops! CRC gets all medieval on yer ass! -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 17, 2005, 05:35:06 PM EDT

D'oh. Fixed. - (static) - Oct. 13, 2005, 09:57:34 PM EDT

Microsoft XML Sample - (tuberculosis) - (12) - Oct. 21, 2005, 04:23:02 PM EDT

That's what the OpenDocument guys are complaining about. -NT - (static) - Oct. 23, 2005, 10:43:49 PM EDT

Re: Microsoft XML Sample - (altmann) - (10) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:07:44 AM EDT

That "link" doesn't work - (drewk) - (9) - Oct. 24, 2005, 09:58:20 AM EDT

Well, duuuh. - (folkert) - (6) - Oct. 24, 2005, 10:24:30 AM EDT

Point was ... - (drewk) - (5) - Oct. 24, 2005, 10:58:03 AM EDT

Sorry, that's proprietary. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 11:05:37 AM EDT

ICLRPD: Sorry, that's proprietary. (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:59:33 PM EDT

That is on a knead to know baseless. - (folkert) - (2) - Oct. 24, 2005, 12:32:14 PM EDT

knead this - (altmann) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:15:36 PM EDT

I would love to download those references... - (folkert) - Oct. 25, 2005, 09:33:11 AM EDT

It's a URI. It doesn't have to. -NT - (altmann) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:19:43 PM EDT

But, how are - (folkert) - Oct. 25, 2005, 10:04:03 AM EDT

$4,000,000,000 down the XBox drain - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Sept. 27, 2005, 03:50:38 PM EDT

..considering buying one On Sale - - (Ashton) - (5) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:05:40 PM EDT

Don't. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:09:05 PM EDT

In fact, they're on the record as losing money on this one. - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:14:11 PM EDT

Do they make decent Linux boxes? - (dws) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2005, 10:52:03 PM EDT

No - (broomberg) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2005, 11:41:04 PM EDT

What about Soft-Modding. - (folkert) - Oct. 10, 2005, 07:30:37 AM EDT

They should loose less on the 360 - (JayMehaffey) - Sept. 27, 2005, 04:22:09 PM EDT

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