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To: steve harris who wrote (54461)	5/6/2007 2:41:56 PM
From: vireya	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I shuda explained that these recipients will NOT download anything. If they can read it simply by clicking on the email, they will do that. Originally I was using an Excel ss. No one would download the MS Excel reader which stays in background and is used without recipient doing anything. Now am using Word tables, but some of the older macs cant read word. Really hate to use snailmail, but more and more, it looks that way Thanks

To: steve harris who wrote (54461)	5/15/2007 10:29:01 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110652

Microsoft blasts open-source software clones for patent infringement By Mark Raby tgdaily.com Redmond (WA) - Microsoft's next big legal endeavor will be to bring down Linux, OpenOffice.org, and others for infringing on a total of 235 patents. The software giant's head lawyer, Brad Smith, has blasted the two software alternatives as being blatant rip-offs of the expensive products created by Microsoft. Smith says in a Fortune article that Linux's kernel infringes on 107 patents owned by Microsoft. In addition, he claims, OpenOffice.org illegally uses 45 Microsoft patents, with another 83 attributed to various other open-source programs. Microsoft CEO also chimed in in the article, reportedly saying, "What's fair is fair. We live in a world where we honor and support the honoring of intellectual property." Open source software and other freeware applications have always been a tricky issue for software copyright owners. Usually a program that copies off of someone else's intellectual property stays unnoticed and is not worth a big legal battle. OpenOffice.org and Linux, though, have become fairly successful alternatives to Microsoft's software.