Comments on: Patent troll to seek XML royalties http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588 Níl ann ach raiméis : It's nothing but nonsense Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-738 maca Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:56:02 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-738 You may be interested in this Beano: "The Public Patent Foundation has filed a request at the US Patent Office to revoke Compression Labs' data compression patent, which it is reportedly using to harrass anyone that implements the JPEG format." http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/18/0154208&from=rss You may be interested in this Beano:

“The Public Patent Foundation has filed a request at the US Patent Office to revoke Compression Labs’ data compression patent, which it is reportedly using to harrass anyone that implements the JPEG format.”
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/18/0154208&from=rss

]]> By: beano http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-644 beano Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:49:52 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-644 Scumbags the lot of them. I read something similar yesterday at ZDNet UK about some company that believes they've <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39234115,00.htm" rel="nofollow">acquired patent rights to the JPEG format</a> and are sending out invoices left right and centre. Software Patents (especially in the US) are becoming a joke, and if what I understand about the EU software patent directive is right, ours will soon be worse! I'm going to stop thinking about it now before it depresses and/or angers me to the point where I start punching walls. Scumbags the lot of them. I read something similar yesterday at ZDNet UK about some company that believes they’ve acquired patent rights to the JPEG format and are sending out invoices left right and centre.

Software Patents (especially in the US) are becoming a joke, and if what I understand about the EU software patent directive is right, ours will soon be worse!

I’m going to stop thinking about it now before it depresses and/or angers me to the point where I start punching walls.

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-625 maca Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:55:38 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-625 Well i'm not a betting man but they've a tough job in this case. Well i’m not a betting man but they’ve a tough job in this case.

]]> By: EWI http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-601 EWI Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:29 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=588#comment-601 <i>They’ll have a tough time getting anywhere with their claim though.</i> How much are you willing to bet...? ;-) They’ll have a tough time getting anywhere with their claim though.

How much are you willing to bet…? ;-)

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