__/ [ William Poaster ] on Friday 22 December 2006 23:57 \__
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:08:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft Patents "Content syndication platform"
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>> | A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication
>> | platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content
>> | that is acquired from the Internet.
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http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329
>> http://tinyurl.com/u7ydh
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>> The last company on Earth to even accept the existence of feeds. Amazing!
>
> Heh! I've posted similar news in
> Message-ID: <pan.2006.12.22.23.43.37.142787@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> An yes, I *did* check it wasn't April 1st!
Well, the patent wasn't very generic, but the idea of making minor natural
changes to block an extension as trivial of augmenting HTML is laughable.
It's all about arsenals which lead to 'Novellisation' of Linux/OS. This
whole IP thing is getting out of hand. See that essay from Jeremy Allison...
on a world where nothing is free... can't even write some code without
paying money.
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