Re: OT? MS patent
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:51:35PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Did you see the story about the recent microsoft patent with similar
> functionality as apt?
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/05/1033208.shtml
>
> Is this a case of prior art?
Possibly we have prior art.
Almost certainly we are not covered by the patent's scope.
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