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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:50:15 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] I suppose if there's no other way to do it (a quote
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On 8/12/06, ems <oat@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 07:19 +0100, Martin C. Atkins wrote:
> > Actually, it pre-dates spotlight.
> Lies. Patent 6,847,959 was filed on January 5, 2000.
>
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> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,847,959.PN.&OS=PN/6,847,959&RS=PN/6,847,959
>

The Beagle implementation still pre-dated spotlight by quite a bit
actually IIRC.