Aye. I've mentioned before that we did some early work in Interactive TV development. I had floated the idea here that we could patent some of the interface concepts we were creating, but was told no. I think we didn't persue it mostly because it was a hassle. I agree that most of these things that get patents, like some of our own work would have been, are pretty simple things, but it would have been nice to retire at a young age.
Ah, gotta love greed. -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:18 AM Subject: Re: The death of Flash > Too bad this one isn't on the author's radar: > > http://www.around.com/patent.html > > US Patents as granted and as thrown about in legal cases in > today's world are just plain stupid and abusive. > > > > Just wanted to point out that the ad-hoc w3c meeting was > > hosted by > > Macromedia themselves, and the statement they released did > > say that > > Microsoft already had presented some potential options. > > It will be interesting to see how this all ends up if > > Microsoft looses > > their appeal, or if the judge orders an injunction against > > IE. I'm > > kind of hoping MS does lose, simply because it will shake > > up the whole > > industry. These last 2 years have been entirely too > > boring. > > > I think Flash will be fine...if however this gets IE any > > closer to > > it's non-standard buggy ass grave (and I hope they > > miscalculate the > > size the grave, because they only measured the width of > > the inside of > > the coffin! hah! Well...I can dream anyway :)) I'm all for > > it, no > > matter how invalid the patent is. > > > -- > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Monday, September 1, 2003, 1:15:42 PM, you wrote: > > > KG> Okay, I know this is legal FUD, but I'm always > > fascinated by the IP rulings > > KG> these days. > > > KG> http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1062344128.html > > > KG> Basically, a company has won a patent suit against > > Microsoft's ActiveX for: > > KG> "A system allowing a user of a browser program on a > > computer connected to an > > KG> open distributed hypermedia system to access and > > execute an embedded program > > KG> object." > > > KG> -Kevin > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > > Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 > > Subscription: > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 > > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubsc > > ribe.cfm?user=633.558.5 > > > Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these > > lists and provide more resources for the community. > > http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm > > > > s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 > > team macromedia volunteer > http://www.macromedia.com/go/team > > chief architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to > > onTap is open source http://www.turnkey.to/ontap > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
