On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > Would someone tell me where you get all this lovely information on > patents held by M$? I can't find anything. Sorry, it's *IBM* who are said to hold a patent on the tab key. Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered... No idea how accurate it is, but just the thought of MS's lawyers getting a nasty shock like that has a certain appeal :-) James. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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