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« Reply #1 on: 9 December 2003, 00:52 »
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MS Patents: weapons against linux?


Yes, of course.  Haven't you read the Halloween documents?  ;)
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« Reply #2 on: 9 December 2003, 19:51 »
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WMD: Yes, of course.  Haven't you read the Halloween documents?  ;)


Halloween Documents, mainly by Eric Raymond who lives in the Netherlands and kinda invented Sendmail.

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« Reply #3 on: 10 December 2003, 01:53 »
does ESR live in the netherlands? how cool! and i thought he was in charge of fetchmail, rather than sendmail, or am i just getting confused?
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« Reply #4 on: 10 December 2003, 02:06 »
According to his site Raymond lives in Pennsylvania. And Eric Allman wrote sendmail.
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« Reply #5 on: 8 January 2004, 06:38 »
I thought that in order to get a patent you actually had to have your own ideas...
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« Reply #6 on: 10 January 2004, 00:05 »
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I thought that in order to get a patent you actually had to have your own ideas...


No, you just have to have an idea that no one else patented already.  :mad:
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« Reply #7 on: 10 January 2004, 00:44 »
No, if the idea already exists it's prior art and can't be patented by someone else. It doesn't have to have been patented previously to be unpatentable.
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« Reply #8 on: 10 January 2004, 01:26 »
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No, if the idea already exists it's prior art and can't be patented by someone else.


Ah, but MS doesn't seem to think so.  :(
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