Posted by nice.guy.nige on 03/31/07 00:42

While the city slept, Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi) feverishly
typed...

[html patents?]
> But it could hardly have been patented by W3C, since HTML was
> invented and published years before the W3C was established.

Indeed, but in the realms of genetic research, certain genes have been
patented, despite the years of evolution that brought them before the
company who filed the patent existed... (not that I agree with this, in
fact, quite the opposite!)

Cheers,
Nige

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