The lawsuit you refer to indirectly is in appeal, to the
best of my knowledge. While under appeal, there
is no copyright infringment.
Micro$oft were found guilty of infringing the patent of another company and
they were banned from selling Micro$oft Word. They then lodged an appeal and
asked for permission to continue to sell Micro$oft Word until the appeal was
heard, and permission for them to do so on a purely temporary basis was
granted. At the moment they are guilty of infringing the patent of another
company, and they will remain so guilty at least until after their appeal is
heard, and probably thereafter because according to knowledgable sources
their appeal is almost certain to fail.
Regarding development within word, until you ask a
programming question, there is no question to respond
with an answer.
Okay, since I could not find a copy of MS Word that does not infringe the
patents of another company and since I do not want to do business with a
company I cannot trust I am using Delphi to control the output of a sausage
machine, but the sausages are coming out in connected links of seven whereas
I really wanted links of eight sausages so that they are ready for packaging
without further attention. Is it because I am using floating point variables
to calculate the link length and might there perhaps be a problem in my code
that moves the result into an integer, or is it just something wrong with
the machine, perhaps the skins are too greasy or the viscosity of the
sausage meat (I use the word "meat" in its broadest sense!) is not suitable
and it is flowing too easily?
I would have posted this question to a Delphi newsgroup but to be honest I
couldn't be bothered looking for one and I remembered that a number of
Micro$oft groupies from this VB.Net group had answered questions in another
different group that is for a different product and had said that answering
questions in the other group was okay as long as though also included a link
to the more appropriate group with their answer. So, presumably you will not
mind answering my Delphi sausage making question here. Unless of course
those Micro$oft groupies from the VB.Net group were lying to us. I can't
show you the Delphi code because it is commercially sensitive and I don't
want to risk posting it on a Micro$oft group, but I'm sure my description of
the problem will be enough for you.
Thanks in advance.
Mike
