Re: Another IM patent for AOL #6539421

Iain Shigeoka <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:25:43 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.im-patents
Message-ID <BAB5E967.176F8%[email protected]>
Agreed. It would be great to have the professional societies weigh in on
this.  The problem feels too large for a small open source organization to
tackle competently. We need help. :)

-iain

On 4/5/03 22:12, "Lawrence D. Rogers" <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is patently ridiculous.  I think it is time that there was a larger
> discussion about patents in the software community.  This has happened
> in the past but nothing much has ever happened.  Perhaps the IEEE or ACM
> might be a place to get it going again.