29 Jan
2008
29 Jan
'08
4:08 p.m.
Looks like this feature of WWIV will be important in a patent lawsuit by
Trend Micro. Trend Micro claims to have a valid 1995 patent for doing virus
scanning on email servers, and many of their claims appear to be well-known
capabilities that WWIV had well before 1995
For mor information on this please look at this article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713
-RZ
31 Jan
31 Jan
12:50 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:08 -0600, Randy Zagar wrote:
Looks like this feature of WWIV will be important in a
patent lawsuit by
Trend Micro. Trend Micro claims to have a valid 1995 patent for doing virus
scanning on email servers,
Good job most of the world doesn't accept software patents. It's a
shame the US is trying to litigate itself into the Neolithic Age, but
what can you do...?
Gordon
2 Feb
2 Feb
4:30 p.m.
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 19:08, Randy Zagar wrote:
Looks like this feature of WWIV will be important in a
patent lawsuit by
Trend Micro. Trend Micro claims to have a valid 1995 patent for doing
virus scanning on email servers, and many of their claims appear to be
well-known capabilities that WWIV had well before 1995
For mor information on this please look at this article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713
-RZ
The BBS software that I ran, while not having that sort of thing as a
built-in feature, did include such a capability in terms of handing off
control to an external scanning program, and a great many sysops did indeed
do something of the sort, mostly before 1995 as well. I ran one starting in
1992, but didn't specialize much in dos stuff, and so I never bothered with
it personally.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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