It covers practically everything you do with data on a computer, right from the earliest stored procedure Eniac/whathaveyou right up to the most minimal CE or embedded piece of code that runs your morning wake up radio or beeps at you from your wristwatch.
Do a google on (fraudulent misrepresentation crime act penalties) It's time to put this sort of sh*t back where it belongs. Wesley Parish On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:04, Alex wrote: > Now having re-read the proper patent. I still don't see how they could > be awarded a patent on what appears to be nothing more that converting a > data structure defined in one file to a serial stream in another file. > Sounds like storing a record in a database to me. :-\ I think Borland > was doing this back in the early 90s in BP7, storing object instances on > a data stream. I'll have to check on that. But it seems so overly > simple. Like someone getting a patent on how you dump cerial into a > bowl in the morning changing its format and then back into the box when > you change your mind. You've done it thousands of times and now someone > comes along and gets a patent on it. Wouldn't this procedure be > considered in the public domain? > > Alex Janssen > > Sander Vesik wrote: > >>>So please englighten us, what about the patent is all that old? > > > >you seemto be seeing just soe fragments and not teh whole - recognising > > well-known tree species but not that you have wondered up to a forest you > > havne't seen before ;-) > > > >Its not that teh patent is something incredibly novel or innovative or > > that parts of it (or possibly all) probably won't be upheld in court or > > that there definitely won't be prior art - its just that it is not (as > > far as software patents go in this regard) somehow entirely bogus or > > preposterous or would cover all (or even a fraction of) computer-computer > > communication as people have been claiming. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
