* RE: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation [not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.63.0707121249060.6676@access1.cims.nyu.edu> @ 2007-07-12 17:19 ` Dave Korn 2007-07-12 17:59 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Dave Korn @ 2007-07-12 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thread TITTTL'd! On 12 July 2007 17:58, Igor Peshansky wrote: > I don't have a fat one. I do have a spinning one, which, unfortunately, > is a GIF. Why does that matter any more? I thought GIFs have been unencumbered for quite a while now... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* RE: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation 2007-07-12 17:19 ` New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation Dave Korn @ 2007-07-12 17:59 ` Igor Peshansky 2007-07-12 20:45 ` Christopher Faylor 2007-07-12 23:28 ` Warren Young 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2007-07-12 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > On 12 July 2007 17:58, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > I don't have a fat one. I do have a spinning one, which, unfortunately, > > is a GIF. > > Why does that matter any more? I thought GIFs have been unencumbered > for quite a while now... You know, I don't know... Old habits die hard, I guess... Besides, isn't the Unisys patent still valid in some god-forsaken patent office or something? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation 2007-07-12 17:59 ` Igor Peshansky @ 2007-07-12 20:45 ` Christopher Faylor 2007-07-12 23:28 ` Warren Young 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Christopher Faylor @ 2007-07-12 20:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:58:46PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 12 July 2007 17:58, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> >> > I don't have a fat one. I do have a spinning one, which, unfortunately, >> > is a GIF. >> >> Why does that matter any more? I thought GIFs have been unencumbered >> for quite a while now... > >You know, I don't know... Old habits die hard, I guess... > >Besides, isn't the Unisys patent still valid in some god-forsaken patent >office or something? I thought the patents had expired everywhere but then, you know what? I A N A L ! Woo hoo! I feel pumped now! cgf ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: New Berkeley DB 4.5.20 from Oracle Corporation 2007-07-12 17:59 ` Igor Peshansky 2007-07-12 20:45 ` Christopher Faylor @ 2007-07-12 23:28 ` Warren Young 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Warren Young @ 2007-07-12 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Besides, isn't the Unisys patent still valid in some god-forsaken patent > office or something? Nope, the last one expired three years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement I seem to recall another high-profile software patent that just expired recently in the US but is still valid elsewhere, but I can't bring it to mind right now. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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