and while we were asleep three patents have been granted to Microsoft by the indian patent office.
Just reading the initial brief tells me it this a journalled fs coupled with some seek n sort. http://210.210.88.164/patentgrantedSearch/displayApplication.asp?application_number=0743/DEL/2000 This one looks like DRM but could be SSH http://210.210.88.164/patentgrantedSearch/displayApplication.asp?application_number=IN/PCT/2002/01056/DEL And this one hashes of loaded modules in mem to check that there is no trojan module. DRM? AV? http://210.210.88.164/patentgrantedSearch/displayApplication.asp?application_number=IN/PCT/2002/01297/DEL I thought that the Chairperson at today's meet was defensive, perhaps even a bit derisive initially, but saw the opposition was stringent and cooled down. One can see why from the above. 991 patents applied for by M$. Three granted this year. And god only knows how many more submarine nukes waiting. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
