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From: Paul F Smith
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 20:18

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Since I started following all of the talk on licensing, software patents
etc, I've begun to take a closer look at how the software I use is
licensed...

Has anyone else noticed that Microsoft has a patent on Word 5.5?!

No, really! Check out the signon screen:

Patent # 4,955,066.

Anybody know if this is a patent on the whole program? Does it mean
that WordPerfect Corp. won't be releasing another version of their
word processor any time soon? :-)

Maybe I'm naive, but this seems really weird. How can you patent a 
word processor, especially this late in the game? Any ideas?
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