OffTopic -- Always look on the sunny side .... from Champion, Mike on 2003-04-23 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from April 2003)

From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:54:47 -0600
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Message-ID: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E405890434@usmsg03.sagus.com>

[Background: some clown named Charlie Northrup was given a US Patent that he
claims covers Web services.  This article in XML Journal gets the reactions
from various people in the XML community to Northrup's attempts to enforce
it]
http://www.sys-con.com/XML/articlenews.cfm?id=627

"BEA's Tyler Jewell as usual takes a refreshingly honest and upfront view.
... "Charlie's lawyers are going to have a devil of a time determining what
Web services even are, much less figuring out how their patent remotely
applies." 


So, I guess we have done the community a great service by trying so hard,
and failing so badly, to define "Web services" :-)

Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:55:00 UTC