Tim,
It dawned on me, what is to stop Redmond from patenting studying social networks based on link relationships, or so many methods therein that they can hold coin over anyone that makes products based on this research? In other words, if you research, you pay Microsoft if you plan to publish your work because your method was 'similar' to theirs.
I don't think anyone on this list is capable of answering your questions. Try SFLC?
--Josh _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
