[scribus] Microsoft barred from selling Word, XML patent problem

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 27 August 2009 16:18:52 Fritz Eichelhardt wrote:
> hi all,
>
> > From: Andr? Lategan <andre at socke.co.nz>
> > Well, maybe it will affect us New Zealanders. It will be
> > difficult to compete against six-horned fourty-feet doubleheaded
> > hypercows.
>
> no, it will not be difficult.
> don't forget - germany is at your side.
>
> > From: Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com>
> > Cease and desist.  We've copyrighted AND patented the six-horned
> > fourty-feet doubleheaded hypercow.
> > Gateway, Inc.
>
> so i suggest war against the extraterrestrials and gateway, inc.
>
> >> From: michael crane <mick.crane at gmail.com>
> >> at once i will start scribus (you see, this is not off-topic) to
> >> create a flyer with a call to arms.
> >
> > may I suggest
> >
> > from a low viewpoint.
> > a healthy baby (perhaps holding a bottle)  in the close
> > foreground against a brooding sky and towering over it the
> > hypercow bending its head down holding one of its 6 horns at the
> > baby's throat.
>
> i'd prefer the baby holding a machine gun or a
> super-hyper-laserbeam-weapon, aiming at the hypercow and gateway,
> inc.

OK, but when Microsoft buys the tiny Canadian company and starts 
enforcing the patent on other users of xml we may be all laughing 
through our tears. 


-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters