The scary thing is, these people were actively applying their technology to use over Jabber at one point (not sure if they still are) -- talk about bad faith.
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, James MacMillan wrote: > Slashdot just put up a story that should be of interest to everyone on > this list. > > Apparently, the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a huge patent > to ActiveBuddy that > covers every step of IM bot technology. > > It is completely ludicris, but it does exist. > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/15/1350230.shtml?tid=155 > > (links from the text of the article) > http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1446781 > >http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=activebuddy&OS=activebuddy&RS=activebuddy > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
