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Go Bill!!!
Patents should be given to things that improve the quality of life, not irritate me and make fun of my poor coordination.
Heh heh, at first I didnât read close and thought the person replying to this thread was âAppleIncarnate,â that wouldâve somehow seemed appropriate.
Technology stealer he started, and goes on and onâŚ
Next thing they know they claim inventing the PARC, at Crimosoft, Inc.
True inventors just canât afford a patent today, but wheeler-dealers can afford the lawyers. Worse, when the steal is secured, they canât even afford the lawyers to defend their priority on an invention.
Next thing you know, Microsoft patents the musical staff: Iâm sure no one thought of it, or didnât have the nerve to follow.
Or any melody: just put enough lawyers to patent any random sequence within twelve semitones range.
Hope Billyboy gets due credit in time for all the training he provided on how to crash a jetliner on NYC towers. Then for all the loopholes in the âindustry standardâ systemsâŚ
This geek scares me more than all rubber-cement-drooling movie monstersâŚ
Just another example of Microsoft taking unfair advantage of itâs monopoly. MS making sure that potential competitors have to pay MS for the right to compete. I not only hope that MSâs patent is revoked, but that the government recognizes this as further evidence that MS is not going to abide by fair competition laws nor act in consumers interest.
Microsofts Plan âŚ
Insist that all your applicationsâ competitor use a feature to run on your operating system and then when that are still able to compete with out the inside edge that MS gives itâs applications. Well lets find a way to charge them a license that reduces their competitiveness.
But why does the Patent Office perpetrate such patent stupidities?
Unwillingness to do due-diligence searches of prior art? Inadequate resources? Ca$h?
My prefered solution: Invalidate all Microsoft patents, and declare a 10-year moratorium on granting them ANY new patents. And invalidate any patent belonging to a company that they acquire during the interim.
Chances of this actually happening? Somewhat less than that of a snowball in hell. 
man, I donât get it. Macintoshâ have used the doubleclick for as long as I have used them (since 90 or so)⌠so how didâŚoh wellâŚ
Probably all of that, but still, could i go there and patent the color blue when applied to sweaters? Havenât these people ever used a GUI-based computer before? You shouldnât be able to pattent something that has become common usage. Can i patent the hammer?
A search for prior art would probably have shown that the people at PARC âinventedâ the doubleclick. Or maybe the folks from the Lisa project at Apple. But i think this is worse; iâm still hoping itâs a hoax.
If itâs not a hoax, the patent, at very least, needs to be revoked.
Itâs the point; and before them Palo Alto invented both the three and one-button mice.
Microsoft even promoted against Appleâs the competing two-button standard, the one which could do away with the double-click.
Same thing, why not patent the Cmd-X, Cmd-C, Cmd-V keyboard shortcuts, borrowed by Apple from (if Iâm not wrong) Wordstar, then gradually introduced in Windows systemsâŚ
I guess if you file enough such lawsuits and claims, some are bound to win.
This is a true perversion from the original US Patent Office goals, which were to âpromote a healthy competitionâ, not to help establish monopoliesâŚ
If I were the kind of person who knew when the hell to shut up Iâd be speechless.
Gates and Microsoft make me sick. That speccy motherhubbard alone justifies a seasonâs worth of anti-capitalism/anti-globalisation marches.
Viva open source.
Following the successful patent of the sophisticated âdouble-clickâ maneuver, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates announced today that the company will now seek out patents for similarly complex actions such as âtyping,â âmoving the cursor,â âscrolling down,â and the MS specialty, âsystem failure.â
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They ought to be a shoo-in for that last one. 
Same thing, why not patent the Cmd-X, Cmd-C, Cmd-V keyboard shortcuts, borrowed by Apple from (if Iâm not wrong) Wordstar, then gradually introduced in Windows systemsâŚ
Actually Ctrl-x, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V where part of the first text editor used in main frames (pre-PC). Word Star just implemented what programers were using, and added to them.
I already had my outrage moment, but I am with Buddh on this one. When corporations try to patent universal things like thisâŚwhyâŚ
Its SickeningâŚ
But seriously, there is a film making the rounds that is against Genetically Modified Crops. Its about a farmer in Canada whose field adjoined a GM experimental crop. Some of the seed blew into a ditch on his property and he was sued by Monsanto for attempting to âstealâ the patented seed.
Postively Orwellian. Anyway, the mouseclick patent reminds me of it. HmmâŚmaybe I could patent the touch-tone phone operationâŚor perhaps the action of shaking a laser toner cartridgeâŚ
Two other examples of trademark theft. I am descended from a group of folk known as Californios, that is, Spanish/Mexican settlers of California who came here as part of the Spanish colonial expansion. A musical group trademarked the name. SO when a genealogical organization was formed of descendants, they couldnât use that name and had to make up a new one (Californiano). Also from the same era, we had a famous early figure in California, Commandant General Mariano G. Vallejo. I am friends (as well as related) to his 4Ggranddaughter. Imagine her surprise when she found that an Eastern business venture trademarked the name âMariano G. Vallejoâ for their wine label. They even used his personal seal on the label. So, if you want, you might try trademarking George Washington for your dental lab or something and see if it fliesâŚ
I know what we should do. Letâs contact Metallica and see if they can file a countersuit, claiming that Microsoft Windows requires power cords, while their music requires power chords.
This is bollox, aint it.
My Atari ST (which I still use for midi stuff) uses double clicks and you canât get less PC than that.
Interestingly a while back some one gave me my first PC (5.5" floppy drive) and one of the available GUIs was the Atari.
Of cause Iâm using the fully up graded version of the ST, the ST-E with 8MHz clock, 4Mb RAM and a 40Mb hard drive.
The midi timing is still better than on some of the PCs Iâve used.
John S
Where is the humor lable for that article??
If true, itâs very hard to believe that there are such stupid people in the patent office.
Maybe I had better file a patent app for the term âsingle clickâ, âright clickâ and âmiddle clickâ, apparently, they forgot those. Maybe âup rollâ and âdown rollâ for the wheel movements as well. Maybe I could sell that to Microsoft and get back the money I wasted buying their crock of hockey OS. 3 times now, but thier first one was OK (Microsoft BASIC in ROM in my TRS-80 model 1 level II) didnât crash). :roll:
Oh, yeah, it takes special software to use different mouses for Windows, doesnât it, not simply typing something into a config file and re-starting the x server. You need to reboot several times or something like that isnât it?
I got real scared when the Windows operating system itsself told me several times that it was doing illegal things. I figured out I had better switch to open source so I could do legal things with my computer.
It means illegal like a game has rules. Because Microsoft sees us as numbers and children, not people worthy of service or respect. We are part of their sick, underdeveloped game.