Hardware security in PCs to accompany new Windows

[James Knott]

psema4 wrote:
> On 5/19/05, Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>The MAJOR issue for MS is that they can't do anything to piss everyone
>>off at once. [snip]
> 
> 
> Sorry about taking the quote out of context, but Microsoft is trying
> to take out patents on portions of email and IMAP (in Canada at least)
> - doing so puts an awful lot of organizations at risk of potential
> lawsuits.
> 
> That sounds to me like they don't care much about pissing everyone off at once.
> 

My understanding, is that you can't get patents on prior art.  I'd like 
to see them prove that they "invented" those things, when they've been 
around for years.  I guess they're taking a page from Daryl McBrides 
book, on claiming rights to everything.  He's even claimed IBM's JFS, 
which was originally developed for OS/2.

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