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If you want to comment on the patents replace PatWIKI in the urls on

    http://kwiki.ffii.org/IbmEp0501En

with View, eg:

    http://gauss.ffii.org/View/EP795823/Comments

Gauss is beeing rebuilt, sorry for the inconvinience.

//Erik


Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 24 jan 2005, at 09:39, Nari Lee wrote:
> 
>> What I want to know more is how useful these sofwares that are covered 
>> by these released patents are to the actual developement of Open 
>> Source Software community, technically.
> 
> 
> I don't know. You would have to start reading the claims of the 
> individual patents to find that out, and I really don't have time for that.
> 
>> I am also curious whethere there are any that could be any of these 
>> patents related to W3C standards or other so called open standards?
> 
> 
> That is quite possible.
> 
> 
> Jonas
> 
> 


