Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:34:54 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Kyle <freebsd@sysmach.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patenting the digit 1 and 0 Message-ID: <01032916345402.05457@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20010330003425.429EA274B@sitemail.everyone.net> References: <20010330003425.429EA274B@sitemail.everyone.net>
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On Thursday 29 March 2001 15:34, Kyle wrote: > I can't believe it !! > > Bill Gates is patenting the digits 1 and 0. He's gonna charge 10 cents > every digit. He's the richest guy on earth and he is about to become even > richer. > > http://3520040376/new_010325/alert/breakingnews.html > > Now, I wished I had thought of something like that before he did. I hope no > one is gonna patent freebsd and start selling it. :/ > You can't patent something that is already public domain. Now if he can improve them and use them in a new windoze version.......... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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