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re: UC's comments
"A representative for the University of California expressed confidence the patent would prevail both in court and at the patent office."
- god i hope not. let this thing die already. it's a stupidly board patent and only damages many people who have already been using the technology.

throw this in with Rambus and MS's desire to license FAT, and the new JPg license... there needs to be soem kidn of clause in the laws that says you can't let people use a technolgy for years, let it become an industry stadard, THEN charge money for it.
Posted by: ryusen   Posted on: 05/11/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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re: UC's comments  ryusen | 05/11/04
Agree !!! but  mabricen | 05/11/04
um...  ryusen | 05/11/04
Har!  FederalistPaperBoy | 05/11/04
I disagree ...  George Jay | 05/11/04
fortunately for us all...  eLurker | 05/11/04
You're assuming  IT_User | 05/11/04
thus, the word...  eLurker | 05/11/04
bank robbery?  ryusen | 05/11/04
Can't make exceptions for Microsoft.  systemcleaner | 05/11/04
and apple, and novell, and ibm, and...  eLurker | 05/12/04
never wanted to make an exception for MS...  ryusen | 05/12/04
disagree  richhayes | 05/12/04
Hard to call  IT_User | 05/11/04
True, but...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/11/04
my god...  ryusen | 05/11/04
Well...  zkiwi | 05/11/04
you are making a good argument...  eLurker | 05/11/04
Hafta disagree on one point  IT_User | 05/11/04
zkiwi  eLurker | 05/12/04
Whatever  zkiwi | 05/12/04
im getting the feeling  eLurker | 05/12/04
This time you left out the word  IT_User | 05/12/04
it_user  eLurker | 05/12/04
ends and means...  ryusen | 05/12/04
I really hate to do this again  IT_User | 05/12/04
???  eLurker | 05/14/04
In a sense, there is a rule  IT_User | 05/12/04
schools own patents?  V Sanders | 05/12/04
Good point!  IT_User | 05/12/04

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