On Fri, 31 May 2002 07:12:50 MDT, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> said: > In still other words, don't you remember the years of pain > Motorola/Codec caused PPP with those two bogus patents? I guess what I was asking was how the IETF would feel about an organization grabbing a patent on an algorithm and using it the same way the GNU crew uses copyright on source code. (Remember - the GNU copyright only works for *code* - since algorithms can be (at least in the US) patented but not copyrighted, you'd have to do a similar stunt with a patent). (And yes, this would be a case of "the Good Guys file a bull-manure patent to pre-empt the Evil Guys from filing a bull-manure patent" - but until the Patent Office gets their act together we're stuck with borked software patents that are invalid due to prior art, etc....) /Valdis
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