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*chuckle*

You mean 80's.

Damn kids... Get off my lawn.]]>Jun 3rd 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 3rd 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 3rd 2007 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
Especially since, with nigh infinite amounts of money at their disposal, they can "apologize" (pronounced: cha-CHING!) their way out of ANYTHING.]]>Jun 3rd 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
Before you start yelling at me, i admit that that was a bit of an over-generalization; but still, its fun to bash the status quo... :)]]>Jun 3rd 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 3rd 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
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They manufacture the world's best social police state 'sharing' device, the Zune. They manufacture the world's finest operating system, Windows Vista.

They are cool with a capital K.

Has evil infiltrated their ranks, for the first time in their history?
How is this possible?]]>Jun 3rd 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
Huh? ;~)]]>Jun 3rd 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions

And even if web search isn't a monopoly yet, there's been news about the worry of Google taking info. from users and storing it for a long time, with no reasons as to why. You can look that on the web. While I'm not trying to pin Google as a monopoly here, I'm trying to say that big companies usually do buy small companies sometimes. Not usually for monopolisic reasons, but because it's allows their products to work better, get more features put in, and even acquire patents that could make their product even more of a success. It's all just to make more and enhanced products. Not so that they can just take over the world. So please don't call Microsoft a monopoly just because they acquire companies, and use the software to make their own proudcts out of them. There are tons of software companies that do that.]]>Jun 3rd 2007 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 3rd 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
Remember when IBM and GM were targets of anti-trust investigations? Did they screw people in the meanwhile - jury is out on that, but I don't think so. Monopolies don't hold over time, and in another 10 years we'll be whining about the next Google or Microsoft.

I particularly like how Microsoft "stole" IP from Bob Metcalf. (1) Metcalf didn't invent IP, he invented Ethernet and (2) TCP/IP was developed with public funds by the Defense Dept.

These guys are probably just sore losers - they didn't price their product correctly and now they're whining. Happens a lot - but they didn't invest the the development of the Ultimate TV software.

Microsoft should just buy TiVo.]]>Jun 3rd 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 3rd 2007 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/dec99/digitalpr.mspx

-j
]]>Jun 4th 2007 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Wouldn't mind seeing it resurrected.]]>Jun 3rd 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 4th 2007 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/Jun 4th 2007 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-sued-over-dvr-patent-negotiations/
We need to stop this intellivision group from halting innovation and progress, right?


Or wait. This is someone suing MS, so it's big bad MS now, right? We all know these one sided comments would be completely different if it were MS suing intellivision.]]>Jun 4th 2007 11:42AM