IANAL, but I understand that technologies that were in the public domain can
not be patented. And if a patent is issued, it's not enforcable in that
case. Again, IANAL, but I feel that FreeType falls in that same category
(see http://www.freetype.org).
Randy
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:43:47AM -0800, Cliff Rayman wrote:
> looks like they submitted a patent for an embedded mark-up language.
> the language can actually be embedded inside an html page (what
> a concept!).
>
> see virtualsellers.com and the TAME language section.
> patent filing info was on business wire.
>
> <soapbox>
> These patents scare me since the patent granters seem not to understand
> software very well - and it seems like it is diametrically opposed
> to what the open software movement stands for.
> </soapbox>
>
> cliff rayman
> genwax.com
>
