[brlug-general] Well, there goes the IM neighborhood..

[Shannon Roddy]

Just seems to me that the US Patent office is smoking crack with some of
the patents they have issued the last few years.....

Shannon

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 20:51, CMB wrote:
> Don't see how AOL could do such a thing as back in '86 there existed such
> functionality built into mf and unix terminal sessions...you could see who
> was online (automate it too) and send and receive messages....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear at usa.net>
> To: <general at brlug.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:39 PM
> Subject: [brlug-general] Well, there goes the IM neighborhood..
> 
> 
> > It would appear that AOL now has a patent on IM and presence technology:
> >
> > http://www.jabber.org/aol-patent/jsf-position.php
> >
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