Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> Looks like Sun are trying to Patent what AxKit and Cocoon can do. We need
> to make sure the patent office knows of the prior art on this. Do we have
> people who do that sort of thing?
>
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> <!-- Matt -->
> <:->Get a smart net</:->
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:39:30 +0000
> From: Sebastian Rahtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: axkit and patents
>
> have y'all seen this arrant nonsense from Sun?
> http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=WO0163481&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD
> describes a patent application which is a trivial AxKit
> operation.....
> --
> Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager
> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
Ok, god, good thing sebastian is watching :)
I moved this over to the ASF member list (unfortunately, private).
My proposal is to make the ASF do its job: defend its developers. Either
by calling Sun officials directly (we know a bunch of them), or by
slashdotting it, or by doing press coverage (Edd: hint, hint :)
It might not be easy, but Cocoon and AxKit are ahead of Brazil by almost
a couple of lightyears.
Let make the US patent office know that OSS might be as 'inventive' as
any corporation.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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