OT: Prior art for term-based licenses

I note from Slashdot article http://slashdot.org/story/09/10/09/215235/Microsoft-Moves-To-Patent-Time-Based-Software-Licensing that Microsoft has applied for a patent on Term-based licenses.
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Hi Hans,
Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in intellectual property rights, but I'm not sure that computer programs fall under "inventions".
There was a Supreme court case awhile back, where Apple sued Microsoft, claiming that they "invented" the drop-down menu, and therefore MS was infringing!
The court said that "data access methods" cannot be patented.
Have you seen this, the fight over Amazon's patent on one-click checkout?
http://oreilly.com/news/patent_archive.html
See here, all of Oracle's patents, thousands oif them:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:www.patentstorm.us+oracle+
Did you know that computer termminilogy can be legally protected?
Bill Inmon owns rights to the phease "Data Wareshousing", and the term "middleware" is owned by TechGnosis Inc:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/2005_3_30_software_patents_hinder_open_source.htm

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