Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:01:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scary lawsuit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827153729.341o-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827222041.25971D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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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
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