Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:08:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | 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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