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emh

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« on: 25 December 2002, 22:52 »
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73435,00.html

This could be potentially troublesome.

Although this could mean that all the crap that Microsoft is doing to free software could finally come back to bite them in the ass with this patent.
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« Reply #1 on: 26 December 2002, 00:11 »
they call it a free country, but hey can own a way of thinking??? and my parents are still under the illusione that it is a free country. and good articles not aimed at the technical type? im going to print out the article on the pregnant women getting abused at the airport
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« Reply #2 on: 26 December 2002, 01:34 »
AOL? Taken from my MES profile:

AIM ID:AOLSUXWHYWOULDUUSEAAOLSERVICE?

Hmmm just for fun...

ICQ ID: Allies only...fuckin n00b  :D
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« Reply #3 on: 26 December 2002, 04:29 »
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Originally posted by lazygamer:
AOL? Taken from my MES profile:

AIM ID:AOLSUXWHYWOULDUUSEAAOLSERVICE?

Hmmm just for fun...

ICQ ID: Allies only...fuckin n00b   :D  



uh?
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« Reply #4 on: 27 December 2002, 23:05 »
We should hold a contest who can think of the most instances of prior art that this patent covers.
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« Reply #5 on: 28 December 2002, 00:42 »
Well, there was an old unix command...
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« Reply #6 on: 28 December 2002, 03:39 »
One point for quirk  

When was IRC thought up?
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A quantummechanical wavefunction describing an unknown amount of bottles of beer on the wall
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We take a measurement, the wavefunction will collapse, and one of the bottles of beer will fall

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« Reply #7 on: 28 December 2002, 05:47 »
irc?

well, did'nt icq exist bfore this patent was filled
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« Reply #8 on: 28 December 2002, 06:05 »
I have the whole rfc on my computer for IRC, let me check...

May 1993

Its RFC1459
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« Reply #9 on: 28 December 2002, 08:47 »
AOL bought ICQ.
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« Reply #10 on: 28 December 2002, 21:19 »
Technically, the patent is for ICQ.  However, as Fett1011 has already stated, AOL bought ICQ, so the patent is theirs, as far as I can tell.
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« Reply #11 on: 28 December 2002, 11:44 »
Maybe we should start a fuckaol.com forum?  :D
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« Reply #12 on: 28 December 2002, 17:07 »
www.fuckfuckssites.com

NOW THERES IRONY (lets do it)
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« Reply #13 on: 28 December 2002, 17:11 »
quote:
Originally posted by choasforages:
they call it a free country, but hey can own a way of thinking??? and my parents are still under the illusione that it is a free country. and good articles not aimed at the technical type? im going to print out the article on the pregnant women getting abused at the airport


you have no context, say sexually abused.
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« Reply #14 on: 28 December 2002, 18:24 »
quote:
Originally posted by choasforages:
irc?

well, did'nt icq exist bfore this patent was filled


Well, ICQ existed prior to 1993, and apparently that means that their patent goes back to that time (I'm not sure, I'm not a lawyer).
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We take a measurement, the wavefunction will collapse, and one of the bottles of beer will fall
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