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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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