|On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Sudhir Gandotra wrote: | |> With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing |> or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical |> building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty | | How can they? My ancestors have held the patent for zero since the |they discovered it 2000 years ago :-) (and patents were given for the |entire earth's life at that time, so no problems with expiry) | and I am ready to licence zero only for the exclusive use by free |software :-) Was it Aryabhatta? Regards, Mukund Deshmukh Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd. Web Site - www.betacomp.com ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
