Wickedkitten Veteran Posted December 21, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 21, 2002 Fortune.com has a story about Santa Clara-based InterTrust Technologies is claiming that their suite of 26 issued patents and 85 pending patents covers digital rights management technology currently in use by Microsoft. InterTrust is seeking an injunction barring distribution of about 85% of Microsoft's product line, including WindowsXP, OfficeXP, and Xbox. Slashdot previously mentioned InterTrust when Sony and Philips announced they were attempting to buy ( and still are attempting to buy) the DRM outfit. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/181258 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotix Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 (edited) Wow, I don't know who to root for. :huh: Should be interesting. EDIT: And I should add with Sony and similar companies now taking the Linux plunge it would only make sense that they would want their own form of DRM in products running it in some form. And by buying Intertrust they'd own a lot of patents. Just maybe. Edited December 21, 2002 by Fotix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 Software patents bullpoop. Soon everyone in the US owns a goddamn patent on every bullpoop line of code, and noone can write any application anymore without hiring 35000 lawyers. (EU has no software patent... yet?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Thanks kitten. Posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakanekoX05 Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 if microsoft was smart they would say screw the government and pull their product line from the US thus screwing the usgov and the people. Im sure it would be funny. Linux is dumb anyways. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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