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Nope, not banning emojis. You got the parent post backward and made fun of the completely-wrong thing you thought it was saying. I'm pretty sure that's what got you the downvotes.

What they actually meant: Ribbons are bad UI, so if Microsoft hold a patent covering them and enforce it aggressively then (one variety of) bad UI will be unavailable or at least expensive.

(Incidentally, I did not downvote your comment; I am guessing at the reasons others likely had.)

^_^ If something is patented, it will become illegal to use. Hopefully /all/ proprietary patterns become patented, and then perhaps only good patterns will be left :P

Each to their own I guess. I find the Ribbon UI intuitive.

> implies Ribbon is "good UI"

Where was that implied?