Re: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-12 Thread Hendrik Visage
I *LOVE* this part quoted: in which the connection can be interrupted for a long period of time Now I ask myself: "Self, how long is a long period of time? 1sec, 10 secs, 1minute, 10minutes, 1hour, 12 hours? a day?" And Self replied: "My oh my, it is all relative, let me up my timeout values to ca

RE: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-12 Thread Patrick Monnerat
> A bunch of US-based companies have been sued for infringing on patents, and (at least) one of them are using curl for the service they are being sued over. I'm not a lawyer either, but I have an idea: let's license the while loop and sue them back ;-) --

Re: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-11 Thread Brad Hards
"Prior art" might be the right approach in this case, but its wrong in general. Read / listen to http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/ Brad --- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette

Re: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-11 Thread Craig A. Berry
On May 11, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:Hi friends, A bunch of US-based companies have been sued for infringing on patents, and (at least) one of them are using curl for the service they are being sued over.   Kermit News Number 6, March 1995 announces the Kermit RESEND command, whi

Re: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-11 Thread Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Hi friends, > > A bunch of US-based companies have been sued for infringing on patents, and > (at least) one of them are using curl for the service they are being sued > over. > > Read my 1100 word rambling about it here: > > http://daniel

Re: does curl infringe this patent?

2011-05-11 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 19:21 +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > A bunch of US-based companies have been sued for infringing on patents, and > (at least) one of them are using curl for the service they are being sued > over. > > Read my 1100 word rambling about it here: > > http://daniel.haxx.se/blo