On Thu, July 27, 2006 12:34 pm, Monkeyden wrote: > The statement "This just goes to show, patenting every idea you ever > have..." just seemed to imply that you were the first with the idea. My > apologies if I perceived it the wrong way.
Gotcha. No, I don't think you really perceived it wrong... At the time I was doing that application I mentioned, the idea of things like partial page rendering and RIAs were just kind of being played with (not just by me, as I mentioned). To be honest about it, the approach seemed natural and logical, it never even occurred to me that it might be anything special! That's what I was saying there... I know I wasn't the first, but I was certainly there early on, and had it dawned on me that what I was doing, 6-7 years later, might be seen as a paradigm shift, as AJAX/RIAs is for a lot of people today, it might have entered my mind to really develop the concept and publicize it. I'm not sure there was ever anything patentable there, but it would have been nice to have even considered it, and I didn't. That's happened to me a couple of times in my life, as you say later, it probably has to many of us. Realizing you *might* have "missed the boat" with something big sucks, that's really all I meant :) > Realizing that you're ahead of the curve: I don't doubt that many of us > have > a few "might have beens" in our careers. There are few among us, > however, who would have realized the value of an "Internet", like Al Gore > did. :) Hehe :) The man sure is a genius!! (Then again, as an artificial lifeform, he'd have to be) Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
