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From: Abdur Rahim (rahim@[HIDDEN])
Date: Tue Apr 10 2001 - 21:05:18 WIT
kayaknya sih oot, sorry yah
tapi ada temen yg bilang ini cuman joke, ada yg tau ini beneran enggak sih ?
abdur rahim
----- Original Message -----
> Monday, April 02, 2001, zer0flag menyampaikan:
>
> Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
> Gates attempts to patent everything software
> March 26, 2001
> Web posted at: 11:53 a.m. EST (1653 GMT)
>
> REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but
> necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and
> exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the
> numbers one and zero Monday.
> With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from
> manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the
> mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and
> programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to
> the software giant.
> "Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes
> ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years,
> in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we
> permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric
> systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly
> predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice
> but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
> A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple
> Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the
> Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that
> the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
> "While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used
> to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at
> its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun
> Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java
> programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The
> licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be
> approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
> "If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no
> choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs,
> "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to
> remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software
> off vinyl LPs."
> As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have
> begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer
> Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the
> next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems
> are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top
> chemists on a chemical-based message-transmission system.
> Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new hydrogen-powered
> printer.
> Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground,
> maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of
> Microsoft.
> "We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they
> are legally ours," Gates said.
> "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform
> tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as
> 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by
> Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation,
> or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining
> the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical
> manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed
> first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should
> the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the
> Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these
> numbers."
> Overheard: "Gates' salary also has lots of zeroes. He's the
> richest man in the world, and is about to get a lot richer."
> According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's
> patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
> "Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and
> zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all
> mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys
> and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as
> well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence,"
> Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund
> Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
> Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which
> Microsoft may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and
> transcendental numbers like pi. Microsoft lawyers are expected to file
> liens on infinity and pi this week.
> Microsoft has not yet announced whether it will charge a user fee
> to individuals who wish to program using such mathematically rooted
> functions as addition and subtraction.
> In an address beamed live to billions of people around the globe
> Monday, Gates expressed confidence that his company's latest move
> will, ultimately, benefit all humankind.
> "Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and
> zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make
> the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's
> largest software company, Microsoft is the zeros. And you, the
> millions of consumers who use our products, are the ones."
>
> Sumber:
>
> http://www.cnn.com@[HIDDEN]@3520040376/new_010325/alert/breakingnews.html
>
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