Altavista wasn't the first search engine (unless it wasn't public for a few years). I remember using the World Wide Web Worm, and WebSpider back in 1994.
If the patent came out in 2000, in what year was it claimed? Surely those search engines are older?
I think it's the case that a dynamically linked GPL library can still be used by non-GPL sofware. The whole idea of the GPL is that you should be able to change the library and things would still work.
For instance the glibc library is GPLd. However, you can still write commercial software that uses it (as virtually all Linux software does).
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Altavista wasn't the first search engine (unless it wasn't public for a few years). I remember using the World Wide Web Worm, and WebSpider back in 1994.
If the patent came out in 2000, in what year was it claimed? Surely those search engines are older?
Honest! And that was several months ago!
Jeremy
As one of the team who produced this image, I find the Chandra Halloween card a bit naff. They've missed off the mouth!! card Jeremy
That doesn't seem to work, it just loads the page in another frame from your machine.
RH have kept this one secret. If this is true it looks good!
I think it's the case that a dynamically linked GPL library can still be used by non-GPL sofware. The whole idea of the GPL is that you should be able to change the library and things would still work.
For instance the glibc library is GPLd. However, you can still write commercial software that uses it (as virtually all Linux software does).
Oh yes. Mono's great.
http://www.mono.org/
What a great machine, especially with 512k of memory.
I remember the cool Z80 instructions like LDIR. It also had BCD commands...
CP/M 3.0 is still better than MSDOS (sigh, no subdirectories).