On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote: > I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for > all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in > cheating the public. :)
It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to support the innovator. There was a thread on this in http://yro.slashdot.org and there was some other stuff about appealing a patent. US $9,000 to get your appeal even reviewed. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
