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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 06:50 AM EDT |
"two Packet Radio networks"...
That is, what it is. Computers TX and RX over wireless,
simply a networking concept. Nothing really new.
Then, when the USPTO issues patent on what is basically
this, it shows how ignorant that the USPTO really is about
tech.
Doing email or any other computing function that has been
around a long time (albeit, today with a different paint job
GUI, that is all it is, is art on top of tech), well, those
doing it make it sound so NEW? It is not. It is old. Too
old to have any patents.
Too bad that judges and lawyers are so easily fooled (as
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| Authored by: YurtGuppy on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 08:32 AM EDT |
If I'm clued in correctly, the recent kerfuffle about the "invention"
of the Internet came out of President Obama's speech which generally laid
personal success at the feet of collective action.
WHO invented it is a strawman, in my opinion. His statement was that the
internet was put in place by collective action as a means to profit businesses.
As far as I can tell there is no historical evidence that the internet was
developed for that purpose (except maybe
for forward-looking statements attributed to Al Gore). I'm sure there were
multiple purposes, but the original excuse for spending the money was advanced
research in support of military objectives.
Conversely, remember that business was expressly kept out of the Internet until
the early 1990's.
But keeping business off of the Internet was a formality since anywhere that
people communicate they use that communication to facilitate interaction and
trade. Yesterday's usenet swap group became today's Craigslist and Ebay.
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a small fish in an even smaller pond[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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