Jakov af Wallby writes:
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
>
> > Mario Frasca writes:
>
> > > a date without century is interpreted as 1970-2069.
> >
> > This is patented. It is not legal to use this algorithm to deal with y2k
> > issues. See this link for more info:
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/01/2047228.shtml ;-)
>
> Software patents don't make sense.
> This patent is extremely ridiculous.
> Where do you live Mario? Citizen where?
> That is probably patented only in the US.
> Not all states do allow software patents.
>
I only pointed this out in humor. I don't advocate complying with stupid
patents like this, and they don't apply in the UK (yet) anyway.
Al
