I joined this community many years ago to learn about GRID computing when I was studying biology and the Linux file system, with future goals to write interesting open source programs. It's the future and I just hit a wall in the design process of writing code for my study. This problem is related to the boring world of business and IP patents. I like patents, but lately I wonder...
RE: "...Worlds.com filed a lawsuit Dec. 24 against NCSoft in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, for violating patent 7181690. The patent is described as a method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space through avatars." Online read on patents: http://www.google.com/patents?id=wv5-AAAAEBAJ&dq=7,181,690 http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=BYoGAAAAEBAJ&dq=6,219,045 Can someone help me to better understand how these patents interact with the open source bazaar method of programing, Linux, the law, GIS systems with meta data that is essentially 3-D access for a user's avatar, etc? I am having flow chart issues that are not flowing... and I am now back to the world of research (patents) when I would rather be writing and compiling software. -- Jeremy Baker PO 297 Johnson, VT 05656
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