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Microsoft quietly settles .NET legal dispute with web firm

Mike

what a load of... 

Paris Hilton

can't believe they got that patent.. software patent applications are bloody ridiclous!

Paris, because you know she will never file for a software patent

Anonymous Coward

So they patented Java 4 years after it's release? 

Gotta wonder what the US patent office is smoking there.

Anonymous Coward

Wow. 

Couldn't you sue the ENTIRE INTERNET with that patent?

Anonymous Coward

Who are VCS? 

Gates Halo

And who has used their "system and method for generating websites in an arbitrary object framework"? I wonder if their business model is purely to sue wealthy software companies?

Parasites of the biggest parasite monopoly....

Stu, get on Skype. Scamps is talking about you again

Mark Pawelek

Humanity's inventiveness never ceases to amaze 

I'm sure they'll take care not to sue anyone who implemented their "invention" before they filed for it.