Comments on: Microsoft files restraining order in Motorola patent case http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-files-restraining-order-in-motorola-patent-case-30220702/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: symbolset http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-files-restraining-order-in-motorola-patent-case-30220702/#comment-198638 symbolset Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=220702#comment-198638 Very much this.  For years one of Microsoft’s key arguments against Linux was that it couldn’t legally play video because the restrictions put on the H.264 patent pool.  Now somebody’s turned that exact argument right back on them – somebody who’s got a codec that doesn’t require that patent pool.  It’s exactly the shoe on the other foot.

This is turning fun.

]]> By: plunder http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-files-restraining-order-in-motorola-patent-case-30220702/#comment-198390 plunder Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=220702#comment-198390 Dear SlashGear (or Shane) – Could we please have some meat on this bone?
What function or capability is covered by this case. This could be as obscure as “typelice” or as vital as “the end of Mpeg” but we would never know.   

]]> By: pick-a-nick http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-files-restraining-order-in-motorola-patent-case-30220702/#comment-198326 pick-a-nick Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=220702#comment-198326 How does that shoe feel when it’s on the other foot, MS?

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