SBC has patent on Web Frames....

[James_F]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981446.html?tag=prntfr

In the letter sent to Museum Tour President Marilynne Eichinger, SBC's Harlie Frost, president of intellectual property, pointed out that the Museumtour.com Web site contains tabs pointing to different Web pages within the site, and those tabs are in a frame that does not disappear as a person navigates the site. SBC said those "features (as well as other valuable features) appear to infringe several issued claims" related to certain patents. The company urges Museum Tour to sign up for its licensing program.

I had not seen one of these in some time. I guess Zac is going to be pissed when he sees corporate America infringing on his "free" internet.

[MarkA]

Absolutely. This is Unisys and BT all over again... And Unisys has actually been relatively sucessful!

[invaliduser88]

And SCO is rumored to be planning to go after all of the Linux distros.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981569.html?tag=fd_top

[MarkA]

Time to find out what can be done with BSD. Look at MacOS X! It obviously has the ability!

Nevermind - I just actually read your link I see they ARE going after BSD also :(:(:( What happened to the free world? I mean, these people are coming up with the most insane patents, yet it remains very difficult to patent a keyway!

[gcutler]

Originally posted by Zac
What happened to the free world? I mean, these people are coming up with the most insane patents, yet it remains very difficult to patent a keyway!

Money oils the wheels of capitalism, the guys who came up with the ideals that brought you Open Source will always be a target for those with money. And the biggest issue is that the open source guys will never have enough money to keep good lawyers fighting against the companies trying to take over.