John Floren wrote: > Looking through my mail archives, I found a link from Eric that led me > to http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/search/label/brasil which I think > contains the seeds of multi-pipes. Note that these were all posted > prior to your time-traveling expedition.
I apologize for not making myself clear. I believe that the basic ideas of multipipes/hubfs and probably MANY OTHER pieces of software from 1970-now were all established as prior art far in the past - literally decades before multipipes or hubfs. Hubfs was simply an attempt to implement already existing ideas stated by Doug McIlroy and others. I make ZERO claim of invention or originality in Hubfs or Iosrv. However, software patents are a Very Bad Thing no matter what, and a software patent on the idea of multiplexing unix pipes is a truly terrible one, making a simple and generic concept that should be widespread in computing into the monopoly property of a single company which I do not believe can actually take credit for the core idea. So, the tl; dr is - this is an area of interest to me which my own work makes me care very much about. I do not believe it is my own work in particular which has any significance, but my own work gives me emotional motivation to object strongly to this absurd software patent. Ben Kidwell "mycroftiv"
