Kern Sibbald wrote:
> By the way, you all might be interested to know that Microsoft has filed a
> patent application for what are essentially smilies :-) ;-) :-( ... The
> patent is on converting them to graphics. If it passes, my program Kmail
> would be in violation of their patent for having converted the :) below to a
> smilie face on my screen.
I'm virtually certain such a patent would be invalidated on the grounds
of prior art. AIM, for one was doing this years before Microsoft was
even corporately aware that emoticons existed.
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