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From: mikeo@integr19.cetia.fr (Mike Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  AT&T Claims patent on part of MIT's X11 server.
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Date: 4 Mar 91 17:44:41 GMT
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In article <9102231551.AA01386@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU writes:

|> Also, have similar letters arrived in any other countries?  Any non-US
|> Consortium members care to speak up?
|> 

Yes - we have received the letter. No decisions have been taken yet.

My own personal feeling is that they seem to have taken a VERY long
time to mention their patent - perhaps waiting for everybody to
do the relevant work, so that it is a question of

a) removing the offending code from the server - perhaps costing a
  considerable amount in terms of personnel etc.

or b) paying up.

This looks to me to be a little suspicious!

These are my own opinions - I do not speak for CETIA on this subject.


Mike Overton.