Andy Lacey
andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Tue Oct 25 03:46:09 CDT 2005
Well the article's inevitably short on detail but if Amado won the case because, as he claimed, MS actually used his code, rather than develop their own link, then I'd say he's right, MS are dead wrong, and he got blazingly lucky. Office users are of course the losers, but the complaint should be directed at MS for doing such an insane thing. Why haven't they used the years that this case must have been pending for to develop a new link? Was there anything stopping them? If on the other hand he manged to patent the entire concept of the link then that's crazy. But I rather doubt that that's the case. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> To: "accessd at databaseadvisors.com" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 2003 Service pack 2 Date: 25/10/05 08:24 Hi Marty Oh my, isn't this outstanding? Those of you still in favour of software patents, please raise your hand. /gustav >>> martyconnelly at shaw.ca 24-10-2005 21:28 >>> Just a heads up on this recent Access 2003 SP, it will disable linking to Excel files. So you may not want to apply it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904953/en-us It is because of this patent ruling http://news.com.com/Patent+ruling+costs+Microsoft+8.9+million/2100-1007_3-5735432.html -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2