Re: [OT] Satellites and Xmas

On 26-Dec-02 at 13:56, Thomas Barclay (kaladorn@magma.ca) wrote:

> And then you find out that perhaps you 
> *have* reinvented the wheel, but it really 
> doesn't make you any less clever 
> necessarily. Just somewhat ignorant of 
> prior developments, but with the amount of 
> development going on in one project (let 
> alone the sum total of the publicly 
> accessible Internet), does this really 
> surprise anyone? 

And then you discover that someone else has patented the obvious code
that makes the wheel and your company is the recipient of a law suit. 
:(

Roger