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    Re: nooooo...

    um...this is old news. The patent was decided to be technically unenforcable especially outside the US, as the patent is not recognised anywhere but the US. I believe that MS got the patent just for the technicality of it.
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    Re: nooooo...

    what all games did the Konami work for? I know Contra and I think there was at least one other...
    2 players 30lives
    up up down down left right left right B A (B A) select start
    (can't remember if there was a second B A or not)

  3. #13

    Re: nooooo...

    Quote Originally Posted by trorion
    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5072

    Ok, so does this mean I now have to pay Microsoft a patent fee every time I shut down my desktop by pushing and holding my power button?

    Summary of article: Microsoft has patented the concept of pushing buttons in different ways to get different results (push and hold =X while pushing twice = Y)
    How can one country be so collectively stupid.

    I must move to Canada soon. I cannot expect this degree of dumbness not to be somehow contagious.
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    Re: nooooo...

    Quote Originally Posted by red_Marvin
    Is it actually possible to patent already commonly implemented stuff??




    ...Breathing...
    Yes, it's possible. It is amazing how silly and widespread something can be and still be seen as an invention by the patent office. Take a look at this for example. If the patent would actually hold in court against kids who violate it is an entirely different question though.

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    Re: nooooo...

    Don't start looking...

    http://newps.com.com/Microsofts+file...l?tag=nefd.top

    I pray that here in Brazil and in Europe this crazy thing will not happen... or in South Africa, or in any country in Asia, or in Oceania, or America... (America is the CONTINENT, not this patetic patenting country....)
    Last edited by ispmarin; March 30th, 2006 at 12:07 AM.

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    Re: nooooo...

    The USA is a country that seems to have thrown common sense out the window.

    Bit crazy if you ask me and sometimes I think we need to movee them to another planet before this craziness spreads.

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    Talking Re: nooooo...

    Hopefully, any European patenting organisation would just laugh in the face of anyone who comes up with such a stupid idea.

    Bit crazy if you ask me and sometimes I think we need to movee them to another planet before this craziness spreads.
    /agree

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    Re: nooooo...

    I'm not sure and I have no official source of this, but I heard that some guy in Australia patented the wheel a couple of years ago
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    Re: nooooo...

    We should start relocating this crazy people FAST... I still wants to live in this planet!

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    Re: nooooo...

    One might want to discern those that make policy from those that are forced to abide by it. As for software patents, Europe may still go down the same path.

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