25 Feb 2007
More SPAM from the Insane Asylum

SPAMIn the process of checking out the renewed efficacy of my SPAM blockers, I happened across another for my (sort of) series I call SPAM From the Insane Asylum. No sales pitch of any sort - just random "musings". And this one's a dilly:

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11:06 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link

Microsoft told to pay Alcatel $1.5bn in MP3 patent spat

This is utterly ridiculous: M$ has been paying licensing fees for this very technology to the real rights holder (Thomson and Frauhofer) for years, and now these bozos come along with a submarine patent and demand a piece of the action. Not even the Evil Empire deserves this treatment at the hands of a legal system run amok.

Microsoft is reviewing its legal options after a US court ordered it to pay Alcatel $1.5bn for infringing the French telecoms' company's MP3 technology in Windows.

(link) [The Register]

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Whew!

Well, no damage here from Ice Storm 07 - didn't even lose power. Although shutting down my servers proved useful, as I discovered that a SPAM blocker hadn't been reset for updating, and works much better after the reboot. It'd only been catching about 40% of recent SPAM, and this morning it's back up to about 95% - so shutting down was definitely worth the hassle.

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