Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word in the US!

[lilith]

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/08/13/Court-Tells-Microsoft-To-Stop-Selling-Word-in-the-United-States.aspx

By Kurt Mackie08/13/09
Microsoft lost a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP, and has now been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word in United States markets.

The issue concerned the use of "custom XML" in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suites. A final judgment (PDF) issued on Aug. 11 by Leonard Davis, U.S. District Judge for East Texas, found that Microsoft "willfully" infringed on i4i's patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449). A jury had handed down the verdict back in May.

The thieves that they are!!! :p

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[lilith]

Hmm... I was just there!!! :p
No worries. I just edited the link in my original post. It should work now. There were tons of articles about it in the last few days though. Here's one from slashdot:

http://tinyurl.com/l6mjoy
Few believe the injunction will actually stop Word from being sold because there are ways of working around it. In early 2009, a jury in the Texas court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i $200 million for infringing on the patent.