[Zope] IBM Patents Web Page Templates

[Oleg Broytmann]

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=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML
> 
> 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.
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