Na kraju se desilo upravo ono sto je jedino moglo da se desi - sud je juce potvrdio presudu, i Microsoft ce morati da se pruzi $290 miliona kao i da ukloni tehnologiju iz Office paketa, inace nece biti u stanju da ga prodaje.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...soft_loses_word_patent_appeal/
Microsoft loses appeal on Word injunction
Microsoft must remove custom-XML editing from Word or face a permanent injunction barring the company from selling recent versions of the software, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a $290m patent infringement judgment against Microsoft, won by Toronto-based software company i4i in Texas. It alleges Microsoft's software infringed on its patents that cover extensible markup language technology.
Danas je Microsoft promptno OEM-ima poslao "wipe" alatku koja ce uklanjati doticnu tehnologiju:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/word_xml_patch_oems/
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Lepa presuda - koja salje dobar signal da ogromne korporacije ipak nece moci da siluju male firme i da flagrantno kradu tehnologiju bez da plate.
Cestitke i4i-ju koji nije ustuknuo samo zato sto je u pitanju "Microsoft". I dalje se secam mog razgovora na IBC-u 2004te sa menadzerom jedne poznate institucije vezane za kodiranje multimedije u vezi vrlo verovatnog krsenja njihovog patenta u Microsoftovoj WMA tehnologiji (a to smo utvrdili kada se pojavio open-source WMA dekoder, gde je bilo moguce videti kako algoritam radi) - njihov odgovor zasto nista ne rade je bio u fazonu "to je Microsoft, ko ce njih da tuzi..." - ovaj slucaj pokazuje da je to moguce.
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