thats insane

so when i submit this reply, i'll be fucking Microsoft?

cool!

next microsoft should fucking get a patent for programs that crash for no reason 5 seconds after it opens.

NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT :

Microsoft owns patent to makeing patents.


The US Patent Office has announced today that Microsoft now own the patent on making patents. in a pique of abject stupidity today the US goverment collectively shot itself in the head and was overheard to remark "we really are F'cking idiots are'nt we"

I want the patent on boobies.

cause that would rock.

Now if my patent for looking at the letter Q would hurry up and go through.

Hey, you owe me a quarter for looking. Quit staring dammit.

Can I have the patent on nipples please?


cause I invented them you know.

yeah um I looked at a boob and I thought to myself Hmmm that really needs a nipple.


so I get the patent right?

good. you all owe me a bazilliom dollars

damn. i need to file a patent on breathing and death. then i'll be set for life!

The whole fucking world is turning into an issue of The Onion.

Does anyone hold the patent for chairs? If not, I'm sitting on a goldmine.

I'm sorry, that was lame

Are these lamebrain halfwits already not rich ENOUGH.
Geesh I can understand intellectual property to a degree but fat, and now doubleclick.
retarded bogus mallarchy.

The whole fucking world is turning into an issue of The Onion. --- couldn't
agree more. either this or universal armageddon *speaks like in star trek movie about genesis*

on another note why do i get the feeling that our already overwhelming bureaucracies are being bought... oh wait because they probably are

Wow. You guys are so antiestablishmentarian. Good for you. The guys down at Hot Topic will be so impressed.

Now maybe my computer history is wrong (which would be odd because Im fucking smarter than Jesus), but, um didnt Microsoft originate the idea of double-clicking in order to interact with files? Apple certainly didnt. The millions of people who developed UNIX/Linux/open-source-whatever didnt.
So since a patent is supposed to be a device through which the originators of a certain item, function or style can receive compensation based on their contribution to society, isnt this completely reasonable?

Or is this just some kind of hippy backlash against people who've been successful in capitalist endeavors?

I was double clicking in Workbench.

patenting a multii-platformed operation, wether you invented it or not, 15 years after the fact is unfair to the industry. its like someone giving you $20 and then contacting you 10 years later to let you know that interest has accrued and you owe them $10k now. and don't believe everything that microsoft tells you, they'd tell you they invented the telephone if they'd think you'd believe it.

and didn't Bayer lose the right to patent Asprin because they failed to secure the patent before they started selling the product?

Unfair? Maybe.
Legal? Completely.

See, I agree that what theyre doing is unfair, I just hate that its SO fucking fashionable to bash Microsoft just because theyre the big fish in the pond.


(And I also hate dirty, dirty hippies.)