Verily I say unto thee, that GreyCloud spake thusly:
> I don't see how M$ can make patent claims on OpenGL when SGI
> developed it. Did they buy SGI?
Well that's how "innovation" works these days, apparently. One simply
buys it, then claims "inventor's" rights, much like the sum total of
Microsoft's portfolio.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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