On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:14:10AM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote: > You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with, > though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for > example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people, > there would now be patents in both Britain and the USA on displaying > maps over the web. But the threat is not dead yet, believe it or not, > and it may culminate in a battle between Microsoft and Google sometime > in the near future. Check out Daniel Morissette's blog entry for Feb 21, > 2009, "Microsoft Patents the Map" at http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=68. > If Microsoft really uses the Multimap patent to put the bite on Google, > then you can bet your bippy that it'll affect your web mapping business > too.
Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst. http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss