Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented

RKBA writes "My wife just handed me an article from the Wednesday, October 22, 2003 issue of the Wall Street Journal about a tiny Austin, TX company called Bluecurrent that has been awarded patent No. 6,636,857 covering the Internet installation of any software or settings on new computers. The patent was granted by the USPTO on October 21, 2003. It will be interesting to see if it can be enforced. I think it's time for someone to file a patent on Earth, Fire, and Water. ;-)"

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Re:Why?

[the_mad_poster]

My sig doesn't say what side of the issue I am on.

Uhhh... and that would be a relevant response how? I'm attacking that you said it's a fact. It's irrelevant which "side" you're on. The point is, it's not a fact. Aribitrary polls are not fact and there's no "good guy" in the conflict. That's the point. I can't really boil my post down any simpler than that, so I hope you can make a relevant response based on that simplification.

Perhaps one who doesn't know such simple things shouldn't be posting about topics that are much more complex.

And... slashcode is relevant to the middle east how? Do you understand how an alternator works? If not, it's my informed opinion that YOU, good friend, should not be commenting on issues this complex.

In fact, I did take out the space, but, I apparently took out more than that as well because I got a 404. Oops, my bad, sorry I typoed because you didn't bother to put your link in a tag so it would've worked properly to begin with.