I agree, there is a company around here in Clearwater, Florida that pulled in outside variables from a txt file in Flash 5 and tried to patent it! I just shook my head a snickered.
-----Original Message----- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:12 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Technology? When can you call something technology? Like if I made my forms look different for each user according to their preference, is that called technology? To me it's just a few lines of coding and logic. The same thing goes with Amazon's One-Click "technology". I am sure most of us have heard of it, and can easily here's an excerpt from an article on Zdnet. "The technology behind one-click is surprisingly uncomplicated. Essentially, shoppers are agreeing to skip several of the review and confirmation steps of the buying process. Customers set up a one-click account with the address they want products shipped to and a credit card to pay for it. Newer versions allow consumers to choose from preset multiple addresses and credit cards using dropdown menus on product pages. Since then, however, Amazon has licensed the technology to other companies, and partners such as Target have made the technology available to even more shoppers." They licensed it?! I mean, sure, the idea was "great", but it wasn't some technological breakthrough...It seems as if you can every little functionality in your application a a fancy name and call it a technology. "Look! A form that let's you know if you typed in your email address wrong! What a technological breakthrough!" - And it's no more complicated than One-Click. So is the term subjective? I guess if you get enough lawyers you can call a pig a horse. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
