I know that nobody Owns an IP, it is like Owning water and oxygen. Althought we have water taxes but not yet oxygen taxes. It will come soon at the rate the World pollutes (nobody talk about the Toxic Texan anymore)
Seriously, what is the appropriate term: owner, rentee, leaser ? Franck Martin Network and Database Development Officer SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission Fiji E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web site: http://www.sopac.org/ <http://www.sopac.org/> Support FMaps: http://fmaps.sourceforge.net/ <http://fmaps.sourceforge.net/> This e-mail is intended for its addresses only. Do not forward this e-mail without approval. The views expressed in this e-mail may not be necessarily the views of SOPAC. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Braden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 3:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois search... *> *> While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache *> (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I It will come as a great surprise to many people to learn that someone owns IP. At one point, some eager beavers in the US government thought they owned it, since they paid for its development. But cooler heads prevailed.. Bob Braden