Ahh yes, the idiocy of allowing ip to be patented grows. They had no idea the can of worms they were opening. Let the litigation begin!
On January 26, 2004 01:13 pm, Pete wrote: > From slashdot ... > > IBM... > Oh, the bitter, bitter irony. According to The Inquirer, in a strange > move, IBM has patented a method for paying open source volunteers. By the > way, if the future of software development is open source, how will anyone > get paid when only IBM can do it?" The Inquirer quizzically notes, with > regard to this patent: "It may be an ingenious way of paying open source > developers and volunteers, Big Blue, but can it really be described as an > invention? > > Peter -- Nick W (nickw77 at shaw.ca) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 It's not our fault, we're outnumbered by stupid people ten to one. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
