Re: [JDEV] Re:Creating a presence server component?

2002-08-17 Thread Sylvain Roberdeau
Hi Philippe, I'm interested in your raw code. If it's too large send it me directly, but it will be more usefull to post it it this newsgrourp. Actually, I'm testing a JSM module to send specific message to a dedicated Perl service. The objective is to detect correctly user's

Re: [JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent

2002-08-17 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:00:44PM -0600, Ben Schumacher wrote: Yes, but this patent is specifically directed towards instant messaging bots. I guess it just a question of how you define instant messaging. Doesn't something have to be specifically developed from the Patent anyway? So if you

Re: [JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent

2002-08-17 Thread Mark Wilcox
Exactly, the point of having patents in many ways is now simply as tools of corporate warfare. What I think is worse than corporations who may hold patents then stomp on the little guys for inventing new stuff, is those who don't even do any work, but manage to get patents anyway, just so that