On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:34, John Evans wrote:
Hi
A hiberno-english image (of an original danish picture http://www.it-pol.dk/sager/swpat/videoshop) of what you would have to pay for in the new software patented www can be seen at:
I was under the impression that the patents on LZW compression (as used in GIFs) and RSA encryption had now expired. If I'm right, I think these should be removed from the diagram.
Also, could you produce a PNG version? This would look nicer and should be viewable by most people.
I'm not sure what to think about the "India" comment at the end. Would some of these patents apply to the client-side software (e.g. Internet Explorer)? If so, maybe your clients (and Microsoft?!) would have to move to India too!
David