RedHat\'s patent applications seems to me to be basically: let the OS of the server contain the static part of protocol\'s responses, so that the OS can start with quick responses while it looks up the dynamic parts.
The technique is well known from many if not all stand alone servers (and the idea is somewhat presented in GoF:s \"Design Patterns\" as well), the \"invention\" would be that the OS itself contains support for different protocols. Should this application pass, it will become impossible to integrate existing servers directly into the OS, which itself is a trivial idea. How can you fight this kind of evil, when an \"inventor\" simply combines two trivial techniques (static response objects in servers and integrating servers into the OS)? What about a prior arts database, where submitters present their \"Open Ideas\" long before someone has the time to turn the idea into an Open Source implementation? The ideas might very well be presented in the same form as a patent application, so that we who have the ideas quickly can publish them before some patent applicant hijacks them. I have about twelve \"inventions\" (simple combinations of well known techniques) in my head, but not the time to realize everyone. It would be good to publish them in a well known central repository, so that patent watchers can remind the patent offices that this-and-this application is already invented. /O -------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0733 - 99 99 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
