On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:25:46PM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
+-------[ Oleg Broytmann ]---------------------- | Hello! | | IANAL, but this IBM patent looks suspicious: | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/net...
I look forward to the patent violation suit against Microsoft w.r.t. to Frontpage. d8)
No. These Big Boys will make a bargain and will play hard against smaller ones :(
There are some bizarre unenforcable patents out there if you look hard enough.
I know.
Microsoft apparently holds a patent on transferring data across a bus from a device to memory. The fact this was happening before Microsoft existed didn't stop them from getting a patent.
"didn't stop that dumb P* Office from issueing the patent" :( Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.