Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-25 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Don't forget that the same patent could also apply to OpenOffice.org Writer. Damn, MS won't be able to sell OOo in the US either now :) Regards, -- Raju current version of OpenOffice.org — and presumably ODF — do not

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-13 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=microsoft Corporation to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-13 Thread Dhiraj Gaur
Good to know the news has created enough heat at ilug list :). Though my idea was not bashing Microsux (good one Raj :D) but to share the info with you all. Regards Dhiraj Gaur On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Yashpal Nagar yashna...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dhiraj

[ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Dhiraj Gaur
A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=microsoft Corporation to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned by a Canadian company, i4i. Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=microsoft Corporation to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Nalin Savara
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:51 PM, narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot live in the digital world with so much restrictions and monology !! Monology ??? What is that ? Regards, NS ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: Monology ??? What is that ? Oppss,, sorry Its should be read monopoly -- ┌─┐ │Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │RD Engineer │Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │Twitter :

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 12 Aug 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: [snip] I cannot live in the digital world with so much restrictions and monology !! You don't have to, unless you plan to be migrating to .us in the near future. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 12 Aug 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: [snip] I cannot live in the digital world with so much restrictions and monology !! You don't have to, unless you plan to be migrating to .us in the near future.

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dhiraj Gaurdhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: snip Where is the OT tag? I don't see anything related to linux or open source in this post? One needs to post this just to bash microsoft? ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 12 Aug 2009, Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dhiraj Gaurdhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: snip Where is the OT tag? I don't see anything related to linux or open source in this post? One needs to post this just to bash microsoft? I'd consider it more a post on the

Re: [ilugd] Court bans Microsoft from selling Word in US

2009-08-12 Thread Pawan
Pawan pee...@... writes: It was MS, after all, that has famously claimed (in a classic FUD attack) that the linux kernel infringed on 235 patents. Sorry, I need to correct myself there. The number is actually 42 infringements in the kernel, 235 FUD violations in a normal GNU/linux system