Asserting SA as prior art would require some pretty hefty legal fees. From what I understand the US Patent Office pretty much grants all patents, and lets the courts work it out. Open source projects do not have deep pockets.
Maybe intervention is needed before a patent is granted. Wrolf wr...@wrolf.net On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@zimbra.com> wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:26 PM -0500 Wrolf <wr...@wrolf.net> > wrote: > > >> >> Is Marc's approach "novel" and "non-obvious"? (Patents must be novel, >> non-obvious, and useful.) >> > > I think plenty of people have supplied prior art, and that the concept > itself is obvious since other things implement similar ideas. I.e,. see > bogofilter, dspam, and bayes in general. > > --Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Platform Architect > Zimbra, Inc. > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration >
