RE: Help: Microsoft patent covers package download

2000-05-03 Thread Ronald L . Chichester
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote: > 5. Other stuff I'm sure we can come up with... any real practicing patent > attorneys out there? As a matter of fact, yes. I'm a member of the Texas Bar (active status) and a registered patent attorney (Registration No. 36,765). Along with Texas and the PTO, I'v

RE: Help: Microsoft patent covers package download and upgrade

2000-05-03 Thread Eric Sherrill
I would tend to agree that the MS patent is fairly limited on its face, although I am not speaking as an attorney (due to my inactive Texas bar card, retired status, darn near zero patent experience, and so forth). I am also not speaking for my current employer TI (which seems regrettably more & m

RE: Help: Microsoft patent covers package download and upgrade

2000-05-03 Thread Jack Wilkinson
that's not the sequence that dselect and co. use though, as with debian, the client computer determines which packages are needed by getting the lists first. This patent doesn't have any bearing on Debian since the sequence and methodology is different. Although the title of the patent may seem s