From: "A. L. Meyers" <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid>
Subject: Re: mew + gnus + namazu
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 21:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ybqvmjm.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r8jr7zs7.fsf@defun.localdomain>
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> Chris Beggy <chrisb@kippona.com> writes:
>
>> Here's a reply from one of the mew developers.
>>
>>> On June 7, 1996, Mew 1.06
>>> (ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/Mew/old/mew-1.06.tar.gz) was released under
>>> the GNU GPL version 2. It has the refile-guess feature. (Maybe Mew
>>> 0.x (on 1994) supports this feature already.)
>>>
>>> IBM's patent was filed on April 17, 1998.
>>>
>>> So Mew's one is prior art, I think.
>
> Excellent! I suppose the Mew developers really ought to file a
> complaint about prior art to the USPTO -- I doubt they'll discover it
> if they're left to their own devices :-(
FWIW IMHO we should encourage Mew developers to become active on this issue.
Even if IBM is helping open source development, "refile-guess" is too
significant to allow it to be swallowed by non-GPLers.
Lucien
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2002-05-30 7:52 ` Jesper Harder
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2002-06-01 19:14 ` A. L. Meyers [this message]
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