From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 11 15:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67C937B403 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5BN4gP04158; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106112304.f5BN4gP04158@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Mikulas Patocka , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:46:39 PDT." <200106112246.f5BMkdt33729@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:04:42 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hahahahahahaa....The patent was filed in 1996. In the 90's the patent > office starting granting patents for everything under the sun without > doing real prior art searches. I'm sure even just going to the candy > store these days is patented by someone... Every time I tease my housemate's cat with a laser pointer, I am violating a US patent. (No, really.) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message