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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Hall wrote: > 'Microsoft has lost an appeal against a court judgement that told it to > pay $240m (Â160m) in damages.' > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8563852.stm > > I still can't work out what exactly this patent is for ok its about how data is stored in an xml file, but open office does, that, adn i thought open office used separate files is it more down to how everything is effectively glued together. This simply highlights how crazy the idea of software patents are. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuaYGsACgkQaggq1k2FJq2oHgCfS6Z61sU2VWqdFM1lAm4Tg+pr kVMAniSJgDE7AghFTKYolPhJztKYgCx/ =QccI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html