From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/556 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A. L. Meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mew + gnus + namazu Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 21:14:37 +0200 Organization: Meyers Consulting http://www.consult-meyers.com Message-ID: <871ybqvmjm.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> References: <87vghf15lw.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <87hesy9tbm.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <87adqhzc96.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> <87ofewqs2u.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <87u1oo9n72.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> Reply-To: "A. Lucien Meyers" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667516 7421 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:46 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: megazh-d-124.agrinet.ch Original-X-Trace: rex.ip-plus.net 1022958873 18574 212.28.158.124 (1 Jun 2002 19:14:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:14:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Accept-Language: de en fr it User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DincEAgMhlixXU+1u1qsC+/PwpE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:696 Original-Lines: 29 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 696 Tue Jan 17 17:27:46 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:556 Archived-At: Jesper Harder writes: > Chris Beggy 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 -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. PGP Key fingerprint=F1C0 D9AE 1B18 1405 4DFA B4CC 6DC7 FF78 C76E FB15 To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": strategic Marxist Noriega Kennedy quiche PLO kibo class struggle spy GAO