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Or maybe this will be the catalyst that leads to an improvement of the abysmal US patent system where any idea that is couched in a modicum of technical lingo is awarded a patent to the dentriment of the industry as  whole. Then again, maybe I'm just a hypocrite considering that I work for a company with a significant patent portfolio. 
 
So I guess, Yes, we should blame him for wasting HIS money to show his son how ridiculous the US patent system is and how much of a farce his day to day job actually is. 
 
Back to metaphysical questions about URIs and REST vs. RPC I go. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Timothy A. Shear [mailto:shear@acm.org] 
	Sent: Fri 4/19/2002 6:44 AM 
	To: 'Manos Batsis'; Elliotte Rusty Harold 
	Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org 
	Subject: RE: (RE: [xml-dev] Patents)
	
	

	I agree that it is good to show your son what you do for a living, but in
	this case, it was done at the taxpayer's expense.  Maybe there is a
	precedence to be set against filing frivolous patent claims?  Maybe a suit
	should be filed? Maybe this is a defense against the business process cases
	that seem to have no merit?
	
	Tim
	
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From:   Manos Batsis [SMTP:m.batsis@bsnet.gr]
	Sent:   Friday, April 19, 2002 9:04 AM
	To:     Elliotte Rusty Harold
	Cc:     xml-dev@lists.xml.org
	Subject:        OT: (RE: [xml-dev] Patents)
	
	
	> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
	
	> At 3:29 PM -0700 4/18/02, Ronald Bourret wrote:
	> >I'm not sure that teaching your kid to patent how to play is
	> a valuable
	> >lesson. A valuable lesson would have been teaching the kid
	> to share his
	> >invention with all the other kids in the playground. Maybe Corporate
	> >America could learn that lesson, too.
	> >
	>
	> I think the lesson here was just showing the kid what Daddy does at
	> the office. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
	
	HA! I hate it but the above sounds reasonable to me too... When they ask
	me what I do for a living, I usually have to say something like "You
	know... Computer stuff".
	
	
	Cheers,
	
	Manos
	
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