On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:43 pm, Steve Sobol wrote: > Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: > > Yes. Although Microsoft has refused to disclose what they have > > actually applied for patents on, their license only applies to specific > > parts of Sender-ID, which seems to imply that they did not apply for > > patents on SPF itself. In any case, it is certainly seems safe to > > continue using SPF for now. > > Considering that they don't *own* SPF, it'd be interesting if they tried to > patent it. SPF was created by the CTO (?) (I think CTO) at POBox.com.
How is it you can file for a patent on something long after it has come into common useage and is already available from multiple independent sources? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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