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From: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation...
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> 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.

That was Unisys, and it is certainly more innovative than XOR. (Or even
FFT, which is also now patented in one form...)


James.

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