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Submission + - UK schools warned off Microsoft deal

Submitted by red3dwarf on Friday October 26, 2007 @07:58AM

red3dwarf writes: From a BBC news story: The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.

Submission + - Google Searching Slashdot for Patentable Ideas ?

Submitted by

rtb61

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @03:13AM

rtb61 writes: "So is Google 'searching' the Slashdot forums for patentable ideas and claiming them as their own? Not that I am particularly proud of coming up with the idea but I certainly don't want Google patenting it, http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167009&cid =13929372. Now would that post, as negative as it is about the concept, be sufficient to constitute prior art and is Googles "Do no Evil" starting to wear 'patently' thin."

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