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Comments on: Microsoft quietly settles .NET legal dispute with web firm

what a load of... 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 13:12 GMT

Paris Hilton

can't believe they got that patent.. software patent applications are bloody ridiclous!

Paris, because you know she will never file for a software patent

So they patented Java 4 years after it's release? 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 13:32 GMT

Gotta wonder what the US patent office is smoking there.

Wow. 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 13:35 GMT

Couldn't you sue the ENTIRE INTERNET with that patent?

Who are VCS? 

Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 14:50 GMT

Gates Halo

And who has used their "system and method for generating websites in an arbitrary object framework"? I wonder if their business model is purely to sue wealthy software companies?

Parasites of the biggest parasite monopoly....

Stu, get on Skype. Scamps is talking about you again

Humanity's inventiveness never ceases to amaze 

Posted Monday 4th August 2008 06:57 GMT

I'm sure they'll take care not to sue anyone who implemented their "invention" before they filed for it.