MS Pays through the Nose for fnPad Technology
Usually unreliable sources disclosed today that the Redmond, Washington giant, in a move to “nip in the bud” any useful software that it hasn’t itself rammed down the throats of its hapless users, has bought the rights to the underlying technology used in fnPad. A spokesperson for the company said that the key technology, something called a parse tree interpreter, will be patented and buried before anyone has a chance to make use of it. “We feel that this sort of simple-minded software design deserves no place in today’s gargantuan resource hogs,” said Nils Knode. The terms of the deal are not known, but W. H. Dolben, the developer, when asked if he wasn’t sorry to see his project get swallowed up by the whale of oblivion, stated via email from his Hinckley, sailing in the Virgin Islands, “I don’t care about making useful products. Look at the places I’ve worked in the past seven years. I’ve always been in it for the money. Now I have no idea how I’ll be able to spend it all.”
posted @ 01:12 PM EST