From tony@svanstrom.com Wed Aug 28 10:56:41 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5927743F9B for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:56:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:56:37 +0100 (IST) Received: from moon.campus.luth.se (root@moon.campus.luth.se [130.240.202.158]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7RJIqZ22179 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:18:52 +0100 Received: from moon.campus.luth.se (tony@moon.campus.luth.se [130.240.202.158]) by moon.campus.luth.se (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7RJJ2Mg007856; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:19:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tony@svanstrom.com) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:19:02 +0200 (CEST) From: "Tony L. Svanstrom" X-X-Sender: tony@moon.campus.luth.se To: "Jason R. Mastaler" Cc: Justin Mason , , Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Re: patent on TMDA-like system In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <20020827211008.Y6871-100000@moon.campus.luth.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 the voices made Jason R. Mastaler write: > jm@jmason.org (Justin Mason) writes: > > > Sounds a lot like TMDA to me. :( Filing date is July 26, 2001, > > granted May 16, 2002. > > > > TMDAers, have you seen this before? > > No, but thanks for pointing it out. > > > I'd presume TMDA is prior art, but still, it could be troublesome... > > Yup. TMDA's core functionality was fully established before even the > filing date. > > Anyone with experience in this area have a recommendation on whether > this should be pursued or not? If you think you can survive it, please fight... When I found that patent I found others that were just common sense, things that any geek could implement with his script/shell-language of choice; and it's time for someone to get the medias attention on what's going on. Basically this is the new wave of "namenappers"; it used to be domainnames, not it's all the basic general ideas they can think off/find on the web that they're patenting. /Tony -- # Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards freedom! # # Genom kunskap mot frihet! =*= (c) 1999-2002 tony@svanstrom.com =*= # perl -e'print$_{$_} for sort%_=`lynx -dump svanstrom.com/t`'