> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:35:02PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:
> > > I did some research on the patent database and found nothing regarding such
> > > a patent. There's patent on word processors (not the concept but related to)
> > > and uses tab on the description...and that patent is from 1980.
>
> > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
>
> But wasn't that Xerox that had that? Yeah, the same ones that
> screwed us over with the compression patent that shot .gif images out
> of the sky. There was inovation for you.
That was Unisys, and it is certainly more innovative than XOR. (Or even
FFT, which is also now patented in one form...)
James.
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