From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 17:34:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33CB37B718 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:34:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABFEF41F; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:34:54 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Kyle , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patenting the digit 1 and 0 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:34:54 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010330003425.429EA274B@sitemail.everyone.net> In-Reply-To: <20010330003425.429EA274B@sitemail.everyone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032916345402.05457@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 29 March 2001 15:34, Kyle wrote: > I can't believe it !! > > Bill Gates is patenting the digits 1 and 0. He's gonna charge 10 cents > every digit. He's the richest guy on earth and he is about to become even > richer. > > http://3520040376/new_010325/alert/breakingnews.html > > Now, I wished I had thought of something like that before he did. I hope no > one is gonna patent freebsd and start selling it. :/ > You can't patent something that is already public domain. Now if he can improve them and use them in a new windoze version.......... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message