{"id":475,"date":"2005-09-30T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2005-09-30T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T04:38:38","slug":"microsoft-loses-in-eolas-patent-ruling-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/30\/microsoft-loses-in-eolas-patent-ruling-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Come on Microsoft – join us in the fight against software patents. This clearly hurts the entire industry – be it big vendors like yourself or small ones.<\/p>\n

Let’s not all get royally screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com Come on Microsoft – join us in the fight against software patents. This clearly hurts the entire industry – be it big vendors like yourself or small ones. Let’s not all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mysql","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1240,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/microsoft-calls-today-global-anti-piracy-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-10-22","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot | Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day Happy with my software freedom thanks, news at 11.","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":891,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/mysql-cluster-ndb-on-microsoft-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":1},"title":"MySQL Cluster (NDB) on Microsoft Windows","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-09-19","format":false,"excerpt":"Well... there's been some work. 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