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IPFilter Infriging on Bay Network Patent?
jorhan writes "Darren Reed,
the author of IPFilter,
recently posted this message to the IPFilter mailing list. Apparently IPFilter may infringe upon USA patents owned by Bay Networks, specifically, #5790554. The patent might seem to own just about every conceivable way one might wish to filter and forward data packets, but trying to read through all of the "wherein said first condition" started to give me a headache (ObIANAL). But when you read what application the authors specifically had in mind, it really has little to do with network layer firewalling. Even more important is the question Darren's mail indirectly poses, "Anyone know of any prior art?""
I claim this FP in the name of the CLiT, because I can't post logged in
becuase mine is kind of greenish brown.... can anyone help?
u cannat calim a l0gg3d |n ph04ast, b14tc|-|
then I'm all for it. We certainly don't want patents owned by commie Yuropeen countries. Yellow people are too dumb to create anything so I'm not worried about them owning patents. They steal all the white man's creations.
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*BSD is dead moron. Now follow it's lead and kill yourself
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot
I hereby patent you shutting the fuck up, shit face. Damn it you dumb cunt, you hurt my fucking colon.