[OT] Software patents for the obvious (and not so obvious)

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> ... navigating among hyperlinks via tab key:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,785,865.WKU.&OS=PN/6,785,865&RS=PN/6,785,865
>
> Not so ridiculous and more annoying is Microsoft's attempt to patent and
> lycence "Sender ID", proposed to the IETF as an anti-spam security
> standard, see eg.
> http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040904

At this point, they can prolly have it, since the OSS community seems to
be shooting it down anyway (both apache & debian want nothing to do with
it).

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