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80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented
perlow writes "ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license? Are Microsoft's patent and intellectual property threats simply the growls of a paper tiger?"
... afterall, to patent them, they would need to describe them :)
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
Well that is a weird analogy. Just to play devil's advocate, if someone wanted to license a sewer system, what possible use could they have for accessing the neighborhood toilets, from the direction of the sewer, no less?
Insert self-referential sig here.
Google has the patent on toilets used for a server protocol. See http://www.google.com/tisp/index.html
Some of their patents are on extremely useful ideas. For example, a few years back, they patented a method for allowing user processes to perform actions with Administrator privileges. Don't you Linux fans wish that you could license something like that?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
... what possible use could they have for accessing the neighborhood toilets, from the direction of the sewer, no less?
Uh, "backdoor access"?