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         your own problem that your patent gets withdrawn) and the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 
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