Monday, January 29, 2007

Microsoft Attempts to Patent Plagiarized Design

From /.:

BlueJ is a popular academic IDE which lets students have a visual programming interface. Microsoft copied the design in their 'Object Test Bench' feature in Visual Studio 2005 and even admitted it. Now, a patent application has come to light which patents the very same feature, blatantly ignoring prior art.

Just another reason MS is evil...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Just FYI that this was a mistake and it shouldn't have happened. More details here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/01/28/update-response-to-bluej-patent-issues.aspx

Thanks,
-Dan Fernandez