On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Paul Lindner wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:03:09AM -0600, Mike808 wrote: > > > Joe Brenner wrote: > > > > Spend only $4 more, and you too can show your disgust for > > > > software patents. > > > > Worth every penny. > > I'm against frivolous patents myself. It harms the industry and could > even be detrimental to mod_perl or Apache if either is found to > infringe upon such a patent.
Do you mean like this one from Sun: http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=WO0163481&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD It's a patent covered directly by two Apache technologies: AxKit and Cocoon. The ASF have however taken steps to get reassurance from Sun they won't enforce this against them, and Apache has the prior art anyhow. Just another example of how terrible the USPO is. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
