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Are MS, W3C Barking Up Wrong Prior Art Tree?
theodp writes "CNET reports on how Microsoft and the W3C are spotlighting old technology - Pei Wei's Viola browser and W3C staff member Dave Raggett's HTML+ specification - in an effort to defeat Eolas' Web patent. In his ruling, the Eolas judge agreed that a Wei presentation that included an interactive image of a chessboard came close to prior art, but explained that the late 1994 date of invention excluded it from the ambit of prior art. Perhaps the judge might have ruled differently had he been shown January 1994 correspondence between Tim Berners-Lee, Pei Wei, Dave Raggett, and others in response to a challenge to match the prior art of the interactive, networked games that were operational on the PLATO system in the 70s at the University of Illinois to make it possible to develop browser-based chess games." (Read on for more.)
theodp continues: "If they were up on PLATO history, Microsoft's lawyers could have shown the judge that operational prior art existed two decades earlier than Eolas', Wei's, and Raggett's efforts. Not only that, there are striking similarities between PLATO and Eolas patents. BTW, Eolas patent holder Michael Doyle obtained his degrees from the University of Illinois, where PLATO was developed and widely used."
Are barking in the wrong forest, tbh.
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Must be cos everybody's busy torching each other in that Gun censorship thread... :)
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What I can't stand people mixing up is loose and lose. They're spelt differently, they mean quite different things, and they sound very different in my accent anyway - Loose rhymes with Goose and Moose, Lose rhymes with Shoes and Blues
If "Shoes" rhymes with "Goose" in your accent, what sort of a crazy ass place on earth are you from? It doesn't fit in with any of the stereotypical accents I know except maybe Arnold Shwarzenegger's: "Dis Gooz Haaz eeden mai Schooz"