[Sussex] Microsoft patents ;)

Geoffrey Teale tealeg at member.fsf.org
Sat Jul 23 22:27:19 UTC 2005


On Saturday 23 July 2005 17:23, Andrew Guard wrote:
> Well Microsoft is now trying to clame patent for the ;)smilies ()-)
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Actually they're trying to patent the process of defining custom graphics to 
substitute in place of a smilie, not the smilie itself.

For clarity: you cannot patent "things" only processes.

Either way, it's a damn stupid application.

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Geoffrey Teale
Free Software Foundation




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