Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft patent on scenery rendering

2007-12-23 Thread R. van Steenbergen
Ampere K. Hardraade schreef: > Just to elaborate: I am against software patent. But when someone can patent > ideas that are in public domain, then it doesn't just concern software > patents anymore. It means the entire patenting system is broken. > > Ampere It is only a matter of time until so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft patent on scenery rendering

2007-12-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Sunday 23 December 2007 13:44:15 Shad Young wrote: > Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > On Sunday 23 December 2007 13:12:17 Robert Black wrote: > >> I was doing a search and ran across this > >> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7158135.html > >> It came up because it referenced terragear docs. Thoug

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft patent on scenery rendering

2007-12-23 Thread Shad Young
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 13:12:17 Robert Black wrote: > >> I was doing a search and ran across this >> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7158135.html >> It came up because it referenced terragear docs. Thought some might be >> interested. >> > > Not that I ca

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft patent on scenery rendering

2007-12-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Sunday 23 December 2007 13:12:17 Robert Black wrote: > I was doing a search and ran across this > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7158135.html > It came up because it referenced terragear docs. Thought some might be > interested.   Not that I care about software patents in the first place, but

[Flightgear-devel] Microsoft patent on scenery rendering

2007-12-23 Thread Robert Black
I was doing a search and ran across this http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7158135.html It came up because it referenced terragear docs. Thought some might be interested. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy