Is NoCat in trouble?

Tu Nguyen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.nocat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi All:
 I received this  posting from the unisog newsgroup. Is nocat in trouble?
Any cares to comment?
thank you
Tu Nguyen
[email protected]


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:57:59 -0600
From: Tom Seto <[email protected]>
Reply-To: UNIversity Security Operations Group <[email protected]>
To: UNIversity Security Operations Group <[email protected]>
Subject: [unisog] Wireless gateways perfigo / bluesocket.

While we're on the subject of wireless gateways, does anyone have any 
comments on this?

Tom

-------- Original Message --------

Basil Baluta wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>  
> You might be interested in this article and patent.
> 
> http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004184.html 
> 
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,636,894.WKU.&OS=PN/6,636,894&RS=PN/6,636,894 
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,636,894.WKU.&OS=PN/6,636,894&RS=PN/6,636,894>
> 
> Acacia has purchased a similar patent and is basically going around 
> enforcing it with hotspot consumers. Many people are contesting the 
> patent’s legitimacy as “it’s an obvious solution if you are skilled in 
> the art”. Anyway, I thought it was interesting.
>
> There is another open source project NoCatAuth that Acacia is 
> considering going after as well.
>  
> **Basil Baluta**
> 
> Architect
> University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, MedIT
> c: 403-614-8765
>
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