Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Ed Jabbour wrote:
>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/business/yourmoney/31digi.html?
>>
>> A goal of 3000 patents/year!  E.g.,  "System and Method for Creating a Note
>> Related to a Phone Call" and "Adding and Removing White Space From a
>> Document."  Come again?
>
>Same article also mentions they are filing more patentd to "keep up with
>the Jones". I guess the idea that you have to have an original idea never
>occurred to them...

The only software product that M$ ever did that I can remember
being original was ``Bob''.

Bill
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