On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, R. Paul McCarty wrote: > I agree with you Tim, the US patent office has been giving out patents > for the most vague and general technologies lately: > > suit against mp3.com for having downloadable music: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/05/17/1244255&mode=thread > suit against MS for multithreading: > http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/10251.html I agree with you in general, and the second example here is a good example of a patent that should never have been granted. (a patent for multithreading, granted in 1997. sheesh.) The first example is not about patents at all, however. The suit is about a company claiming copyright infringement in the winamp mp3 player, and they're suing mp3.com because they say mp3.com is making money off off winamp, which is in turn based on their code. This is very simply a case of whether or not Nullsoft (the makers of winamp) did or did not use code from another company illegally. Paul Archer -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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