PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, USA (CNEWS/MSNBC) --- In a major move into the scientific publishing market, Microsoft Corporation announced today that it has purchased all rights to the computer language and document compiler known as TeX (pronounced, "tech"), and plans a major new product line based on the 30-year-old software.
Stanford Professor Donald Knuth (pronounced, "kah-nooth"), the author of the widely-used TeX software, in a joint press conference at the university campus with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, acknowledged that the two had been negotiating for some months. "I felt that two decades of TeX in the public domain was enough. I am reasserting the copyright to my original work in TeX. Microsoft will carry the ball now, and I can get back to my computer science research." Knuth acknowledged he was paid a "seven-figure sum" from Microsoft, which he will use to finance his work on a project he has code-named "Volume 5".
