offtopic news: Court rules in Microsoft's favour on patents; Supreme Court also weighs in from Dailey, David P. on 2007-05-01 (public-html@w3.org from May 2007)

From: Dailey, David P. <david.dailey@sru.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:47:59 -0400
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Apologies for the slightly off-topic interruption (without reading the ruling I'm not sure if there are implications for the web or not) , but there are so many folks in the software development community here, that I thought many people here would be interested. 
 
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286910,00.htm (ATT v Microsoft, yesterday)
 
This is coupled with a separate Supreme Court decision yesterday making software patents harder to obtain http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0704300483may01,0,3797359.story?coll=chi-business-hed
 
Many here may be encouraged, based on some views they have expressed.
 
David

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:47:59 UTC