[Slugnet] [Off Topic] S'pore firm claims patent to image search

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Harish Pillay <harish.pillay at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> People, including me, jumped on the headlines without checking the
> claims first.
> >
> > I'm lost. If the patent is for something completely different from <a
> > href="http://www.adeptiva.com"><img src="myimg.jpg"/></a>, what are
> > they invoicing people for? Are people actually using this
> > client/server thingy?
>
> Exactly. I am wondering if the demand letter that is referenced here:
> http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.31/t.gif is about their client/server
> technology.
> There seems to be stats on usage so it has to be.  Really, this is dead
> technology frankly.
>

hm. This seems to have turned into a 1x1 gif? Does anybody have a copy of it
elsewhere?

-jf

--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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