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$Double.Click

Friday, June 4th, 2004

Push a button once on your phone: Free
Push a button twice on your phone: Micro$oft gets paid.

The folks in Redmond managed to patent the “double click” on non-PC devices. Palm pilot users beware: your “push to start, push again to stop” software is now in patent violation.

Just when you thought they already controlled enough,
Microsoft Nabs Patent on Double-Clicking.

(Reposted from No Smorking).