I have been hearing about the first to apply rule. If patent reform includes such a rule change these new patent applications to inventions by others will have beat the owners of ideas in the race to patent, plus it allows free grab of anything left unpatented.

Bush says we don't torture..
and we did. so its not a backdoor... its ah... a peephole.... or something. and ya Microsoft didn't put it in.... cause then some employees there would know too much and have to be ... ehmmm rebooted. Instead they allowed the peephole to be put in. And they can honest say they didn't do it, nor do they know anything about it... its not torture... I mean a backdoor cause the defination of that is nothing that anyone else would think it means. No matter... I'm a Mac.

yes so true. MS doesn't mind coming out with a weak product... It makes current Vendors feel safe... they mock it. But little by little the MS product takes over... usually not because its better, but rather its free or bundled or way cheaper. But... then MS did create the Virus protection industry by creating such a crapy OS.