magenta writes: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Am Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 14:38 schrieb Alexander Stohr: > > > > [-] > > > > > And thats why all the world on the stock marked emphasizes on their > > > patents protfolio, its money and power that those patenst sometimes > > > do represent. Of course there is much vapourware, but such key > > > technologies like S3TC that anybody wants to use are valueable > > > to its owner. > > > > Sorry, Alexander. > > > > ...but such key technologies like S3TC... > > s/S3TC/public-key encryption/ > > > What? > > The algorithm is a very trivial one. > > Doesn't matter. > Oh, but it does. If the algorithm (which in itself shouldn't be patentable anyway) is obvious and trivial (like in the case of S3TC) they can easily lose that patent in court (which is still a problem because a trial will cost money).
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