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Microsoft to shell out millions on MS Word Infringement Case 
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But don't worry, apparently they've got a backup plan.

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SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.

But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft's Office package in the U.S. won't have to go without the software. Microsoft said Tuesday it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on Jan. 11.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Court-bans-sale-of-Word-apf-2019805011.html?x=0&.v=8

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If worst comes to worst, they could just buy themselves out of it.


Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:32 pm
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Snoble wrote:
If worst comes to worst, they could just buy themselves out of it.


Apple got the software code for their GUI OS by buying it from someone who didn't patent it

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nephitejnf wrote:
Snoble wrote:
If worst comes to worst, they could just buy themselves out of it.


Apple got the software code for their GUI OS by buying it from someone who didn't patent it

Or rather, they just stole Unix.

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Thaiberium wrote:
nephitejnf wrote:
Snoble wrote:
If worst comes to worst, they could just buy themselves out of it.


Apple got the software code for their GUI OS by buying it from someone who didn't patent it

Or rather, they just stole Unix.

Yeah, we tells that to a guy in one of my classes and his excuse is "But Macs are so beautiful! They are so easy to use."

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Yeah, we tells that to a guy in one of my classes and his excuse is "But Macs are so beautiful! They are so easy to use."

Typical Mac user idiocy.

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Definitely, I've asked a lot of Mac users why they use macs. A quarter use it because of their ad, another quarter because they like ipods and another quarter because they look nice. An eighth got given on and the other eighth now what they're tlaking about

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