On 9/27/07, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Charron wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> France Telecom has a whole slew of patents for things that > >> personally, I disagree with. Take a gander at this page: > I think the prior art is pretty well established. BellSouth basically > patented XMPP a few years back too, but we have good records of the > early released software way back before any corporations were involved > in our little community.
Unfortunately, it could be sad, as once a patent IS granted, you have a right to enforce it until it is invalidated. My understanding of the process is, those are two separate issues, which end up costing money. But I digress. I don't see it ever happening, I just find the whole affair of patents in the modern day very, very depressing. -- -- Thomas
