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Article #74671Re: AT&T Threat against X Windows freedom
From: Rob Healey
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 23:15
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 23:15
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In article <1991Feb25.043755.17220@algor2.algorists.com> jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) writes: >The courts are bound to realize, eventually, how this new industry of >filing patents on obvious and generally known techniques and then >launching well-financed suits that paralyze innovation is legal >nonsense. It could take them a decade, however. In the meantime, the >US software industry could be in turmoil. And the chances that our >foreign competition will be this stupid, vile and self-destructive are >terribly close to zero. > The concept of backing store strikes me as being something that could have easily been prior art, but only AT&T bothered to patent it? Are there any examples of backing store before 1985? I think AmigaDOS has had backing store since before 1984... -Rob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b0a85d23901c1430 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-27 21:31:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!quest!digibd!rhealey From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: AT&T Threat against X Windows freedom Message-ID: <1991Feb27.231511.19935@digibd.com> Date: 27 Feb 91 23:15:11 GMT References: <1991Feb25.043755.17220@algor2.algorists.com> Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, St. Louis Park, MN Lines: 15