On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen K�hn wrote: > > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > > roving around in THEIR own closet... > > Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean not > equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to the > Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p >=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR >.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 > > OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about > chutzpah! careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah > > John.
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