[Patents] Sun patent on using search string in hyperlinks

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

Quoting your own explanations:

>  Sun's license terms are quite generous: they require than any
> competitor using this concept obliges himself in return to publish
> the concepts that he builds on it. Thus Sun supplies the W3C a
> weapon against "embrace and extend" tactics.


seems rather nice to me ... sounds a bit like GPL.  Especially if they
require that any patents interfering with theirs applies the same
rule ...  is it the case ?

  Comments ?

Bernard


On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> Sun owns the concept of bringing the web browser not only to a document
> but to a certain place in the document where a search string is found.
> This is causing headaches at the W3C.
> 
> Already in the horror gallery, see
> 
>         http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta/xrani/xpointer/
> 
> It has been impossible for me to find out, whether this patent has also
> been gratend by the EPO.  The
> 
>         EPO's patent search mask
>         http://ep.espacenet.com
> 
> seems to be broken.  It reports that it found some patents and tells me to
> click on them to get further info, but it doesn't present anything to
> click on.
> 
> The Espacenet system has always been horribly obscure, apparently designed
> by the EPO to withhold its data and thus be able to commercialise
> them while still pretending to be giving them to the public.
> 
> -phm
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Patents maillist  -  Patents@liberte.aful.org
> http://liberte.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents

-- 
         Non aux Brevets Logiciels  -  No to Software Patents
           SIGNEZ    http://petition.eurolinux.org/    SIGN

Bernard.Lang@inria.fr             ,_  /\o    \o/    Tel  +33 1 3963 5644
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Fax  +33 1 3963 5469
            INRIA / B.P. 105 / 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX / France
         Je n'exprime que mon opinion - I express only my opinion
                 CAGED BEHIND WINDOWS or FREE WITH LINUX