http://damieng.com/blog/2006/11/24/office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel A .NET developer in silicon valley Fri, 18 May 2012 15:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://damieng.com/blog/2006/11/24/office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel#comment-1701 steve Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:54:20 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/11/24/office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel.aspx#comment-1701 Yeo, I wish this was surprising, but it's really not anymore. Companies are increasingly doing this, standing on the shoulders of giants and then trying to claim that their incremental change is a revolutionary new idea that deserves protection from competition. Bollocks is all I can say. Yeo, I wish this was surprising, but it’s really not anymore. Companies are increasingly doing this, standing on the shoulders of giants and then trying to claim that their incremental change is a revolutionary new idea that deserves protection from competition. Bollocks is all I can say.

]]> http://damieng.com/blog/2006/11/24/office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel#comment-1700 Goldsacs Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:35:39 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/11/24/office-ribbon-patenting-look-and-feel.aspx#comment-1700 I listen to a heck of a lot of podcasts which mainly focus on tech news and for a long time it has always been a 50% split between what is new in terms of products and rest is about who is getting sued. In fasct it seems more and more like the legal stuff is the news.<br />The thing that gets me about all this is the fact that with one hand companies like Microsoft (and they are not the only ones) will sue for something like this ribbon and then on the other hand they will make every effort to copy something (like the zune and the ipod).<br /> I listen to a heck of a lot of podcasts which mainly focus on tech news and for a long time it has always been a 50% split between what is new in terms of products and rest is about who is getting sued. In fasct it seems more and more like the legal stuff is the news.
The thing that gets me about all this is the fact that with one hand companies like Microsoft (and they are not the only ones) will sue for something like this ribbon and then on the other hand they will make every effort to copy something (like the zune and the ipod).

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