Unfortunately, whether a patent is frivolous, obvious, or just plain nefarious does not shield one from letters written on the letterhead of a law firm. I rather suspect that anyone who receives such a letter is in for a fairly significant cash outlay.

If either of these patents hold, and are enforcable on this side of the Atlantic, then we might as well shut down our web site. We have had a www server since 1993, and have been using CGI and query forms (and Perl, btw) since early 1994 to query a relational database and retrieve specified results.

In fact, when was the Common Gateway Interface Specification first proposed? It had to have been before 1994, if we were already using it.

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"Computeri non cogitant, ergo non sunt"

In reply to Re: Re: European Software Patents vs. Perl? by cadfael
in thread European Software Patents vs. Perl? by neophyte

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