> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Note that it also took quite a bit a beating to get them to admit that > > 1) They dont know the answer to the Subject > or > 2) Yahoo runs something quite different than what is available > generally since > they've "substantially" modified it. > No, it is just I would be surprised if they didn't. Yahoo like any large company almost certainly has patentable ideas and a crew of lawyers reviewing everything. I would also expect they have a patent portfolio. Otherwise nothing would prevent some competitor ripping off their ideas and setting up a duplicate "yahoo" website. I would guess - since it is usual for this in most large companies - that some of these ideas are implemented in the FreeBSD they run. I don't work at Yahoo so I can freely speculate. And my speculations are founded on what is normal and usual for most larger companies. Nobody that works at Yahoo and actually knows the truth would be able to even speak hypothetically about what runs at Yahoo, as they would almost certaily be under an NDA. (something that is also normal and usual for most large companies) Ted _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
