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Josh
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Stop Microsoft's Patent on Emoticons

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If you haven't heard about the new patent, click [url="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39210396,00.htm"]here[/url].

If you already have heard about the new patent, click [url="http://www.petitiononline.com/f5923j49/petition.html"]here[/url].

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Stop Microsoft's Patent on Emoticons

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Interesting that everyone raises /censored.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(cens)' /> about this, but no one bothered to say anything when America Online began the process to patent the terms 'IM' and 'Instant Messaging".
Plus, since it was filed over a year and a half ago, it's not exactly new news, and likely at this point a petition will do nothing more than give their lawyers something good to laugh at.
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