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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: Scary lawsuit
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Narvi wrote:

> Why are they threating W3C? Web sure is not and does not use such things.

W3C is proposing an extension to HTTP in support of replicating
data, i.e. web sites much like the FreeBSD mirrors are replicated
using rsync. 

> If I am not wrong you would have to be the author/owner of the thing you
> patent?

Yes, but how hard is it to convince the patent office that you
are the original author?  Original authorship is not something
that can be proved absolutely, it can only be positively
disproved.

If the patent stands, they could potentially demand royalties for
things like cvsup.  Yech!

-john