[Zope] Patent Threat to Zope?

Bill Anderson bill.anderson@libc.org
Wed, 26 May 1999 18:56:12 -0600


> "XXXXXX(LEE Kwan Soo)" wrote:
> 
> Just read from slashdot.
> 
> A company filed & granted a patent which may become a threat to our
> cherished Zope('s potential, at least).
> 
> Excerpt:
> 
> "When the browser makes the request to a Web server, the patent covers
> the notion of redirecting that request to other machines [application
> servers] within a cluster and having those other machines dynamically
> produce a response,"
> 
> Wired.
> 
> See this link.
> What do you think of?

<non_patent_attourney_comments>

If challenged by comeptent attourneys, this could easily be defeated.

It is far too vague.

</non_patent_attourney_comments>

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