Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:44:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:43:44 -0500 Received: from alcove.wittsend.com ([130.205.0.20]:29959 "EHLO alcove.wittsend.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:43:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:41:21 -0500 From: "Michael H. Warfield" To: Dan Hollis Cc: Carlos Fernandez Sanz , James Sutherland , "David D.W. Downey" , Rik van Riel , Alan Olsen , Mark Haney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation... Message-ID: <20010216194121.B26627@alcove.wittsend.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Hollis , Carlos Fernandez Sanz , James Sutherland , "David D.W. Downey" , Rik van Riel , Alan Olsen , Mark Haney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <058701c09875$1977efa0$f40237d1@MIACFERNANDEZ> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.2i In-Reply-To: ; from goemon@anime.net on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:35:02PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:35:02PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: > > I did some research on the patent database and found nothing regarding such > > a patent. There's patent on word processors (not the concept but related to) > > and uses tab on the description...and that patent is from 1980. > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR). But wasn't that Xerox that had that? Yeah, the same ones that screwed us over with the compression patent that shot .gif images out of the sky. There was inovation for you. > -Dan Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@WittsEnd.com (The Mad Wizard) | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/