- From: <jamal@funkydata.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:27:01 -0700
- To: public-widgets-pag@w3.org
Hi, What about the way dns auto updates itself? It may be a contrived implementation but, one as to ask what exactly is software. The first dns servers predate apple patent by at least ten years. One could argue that the software updates its data. But if one could find dns software that uses for example a data repository like berkeley db (wich also predates the claim by at least ten years)... Berkeley db being an embedded library... The data is the software and the software is the data! Furthermore the apple patent would be based on something (almost all the data exchange in the world uses dns) that is exactly what the patent is about. By the way, I did not know one could patent ideas. To patent a process or an implementation is one thing, to patent an idea is absurd. Regards. Jamal Abdou-Karim Bengeloun
Received on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 12:55:47 UTC