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So if M$ patented this technology, does it mean that other companies can not use this kind of shit to limit their users? If so this would be a good thing.

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The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.

Please let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.

Maybe the law has changed but I heard that a patent for a waterbed was once refused because Robert Heinlein had described one in a novel.

of course not, microsoft would just licence the patent to other parties

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