Hopefully the European Union proposals on patenting software which require
you to actually invent something will be applied in Europe.
Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
news:91884734.0202221647.1e206f9c_at_posting.google.com...
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:<u6lhsa2uqo1e31_at_corp.supernews.com>...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
> > news:3c6ac1ff$0$27939$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > > Isn't it? I thought Unix was just like DOS, but they got the slashes
the
> > > wrong way round...
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > > HJR
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> > > ===============================
> > >
> > >
> > Can anyone mention anything *invented* by Microsoft? I mean *invented*,
not
> > *stolen* or *bought* . Actually they retracted from treating DOS like
> > another Unix by promoting the /p switch in the dir command instead of
the
> > MORE filter.
> > :)
>
>
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=microsoft&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM
2=&FIELD2=&d=ft00
>
> Scary. Very scary.
>
> jg
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Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 03:26:24 CST
