From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 19:25: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945E637B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2U3OvP39757; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:24:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103300324.f2U3OvP39757@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd@sysmach.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patenting the digit 1 and 0 In-Reply-To: Message from Kyle of "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:34:25 PST." <20010330003425.429EA274B@sitemail.everyone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:24:57 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kyle writes: > 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 o ne is gonna patent freebsd and start selling it. :/ He can't do that. Before Bill Gates was born Al Gore's mother invented 1's and 0's so her son could string them together and invent the internet. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message