Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes

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Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes

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.

full story: http://www.microsoft.com/news/0425/default.mspx

seuss_ssues

Gotta love april 1st..........

JDMurray

The Babylonian's patent on the number zero has already expired?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_zero