Re: standards among the IP detritus

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
> At 09:10 AM 2/8/01 +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> >BTW, I have made a slight update to my signature.
> >--
> >This email has been proudly written by Eric van der Vlist and is very
> >likely to include innovative ideas.
> >
> >[excised to avoid possible infringement]
> 
> Have you applied for a patent on intellectual-property-protecting signature
> files yet?  

No, but it's been archived in xml-dev and Peter Murray-Rust said it
might be used for prio art [1]...

> It's better than clickwrap, since you can send it to anyone you
> want! This could be a real money-maker, you know.

Sure !

The good news is that if you want to use it I'll grant you a non
exclusive license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms as soon as
it will be a standard...

Eric

[1] http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=545
 
> ;->
> 
> Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
> XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
> XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
> http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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