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It looks like my original post got lost so here it is again ...  Anyone have
any idea if this patent is as broad as the newspaper says?

[mod:- Hmm.. My records say this was posted... anyway here it
is again...]
---------- Posted earlier ----------

In the San Jose Mercury News, Wednesday, March 11, 1992, Section F:

Apparently, this guy named Roger E. Billings claims that he invented the 
File Server concept and patented it (4,714,989).  The patent was granted
in December 1987 (applied for in February 1982).  He claims he did most 
of his work during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Is this guy for real?  How can the concept of a file server be patented?
I mean, how about, if I patent the special way I walk across the street,
or the way I sit on my chair.  Heck, I bet no one has patented that one.

This patent system is getting way out of hand.  Client-server ideas have
been around long before computers were invented.

I think I will write a free DOS file server just to spite him.

Ern
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