- From: Stephen St.Clair <ssc@tiac.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 12:19:03 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
Paul Burchard wrote: >Don't be fooled by the familiar "RFC-style" standards look. This >CCI++ thing is proprietary. But you have to go to their Web site ><URL:http://visembryo.ucsf.edu/eolas.html> to find that out: > >## Eolas will soon begin licensing rights to both CCI++(TM) >## and MetaMAP(R) technologies. > >Someone on the www-vrml list reported the following, much more >insidious rumor (I have no confirmation however): > >Leonardo@aol.com wrote: >> The rumor is that this company has rights to a UC pending >> patent that relates to any API that allows a Web browser to >> read a compound document that includes embedded programs. > >What?? If that isn't obvious, I don't know what is. I sure hope the >patent office doesn't fall for this one, although I can't say I'm >optimistic. > Is this going to be one of those Compton multimedia patent things again? Steve
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