On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 22:52 +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Chng Tiak-Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Maybe the patent office did it intentionally ? > > They could have just approved everything and let everyone > fights in court. > > In this way, they still can collect the patent application fee > (it's > your own problem that your patent gets withdrawn) and the > lawyers can > make more money. > > now that's an idea! collecting more money... ;) > > Anyway, today's New Paper(!!) apparently has some coverage on this > issue, and from what has been written, it would appear that the > original accusation was correct indeed... > > To quote: (4th paragraph) > "He claims that websites which use images to link to pages that > contain an organisation's contact information have breached his > patent" > > (ok, "link to pages that contain an organisation's contact > information"??? dunno about that, but the idea of image hyperlinks is > still there...)
I read about that too ... so linking to any other type of pages other than containing organisation's contact information is not covered by his patent? Really I find it amusing that he first comes here to try it out ... it says a alot about Singapore and people living here isn't it? regards billy > > An easy way to spot the correct edition of the paper would be to > notice the front page which has a cover of the defamation suit hearing > against the SDP/Dr Chee/his sister where the MM and PM actually take > to the stand. This is probably a better account of the story than the > alternative one that you see in the Sg_Review yahoogroup > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sg_Review/)... But not to digress. > Anyway, the words in bold on the front page, all caps: "You are a > political juvenile". 28 May 2008 edition > > > -jf > > -- > In the meantime, here is your PSA: > "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would > not help." > -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation > http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
