Saturday, July 23, 2005
Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent
"ZDNet UK reports on criticism of Microsoft's attempt to patent the creation of custom emoticons. 'I would have expected to see something like this suggested by one of our more immature community members as a joke on Slashdot,' quipped Mark Taylor of the Open Source Consortium. 'We now appear to be living in a world where even the most laughable paranoid fantasies about commercially controlling simple social concepts are being outdone in the real world by well-funded armies of lawyers on behalf of some of the most powerful companies on the planet.'"
source:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/23/138228&tid=155&tid=109
source:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/23/138228&tid=155&tid=109
# posted by dark master : 7/23/2005 11:09:00 AM
