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Re: [OT] Satellites and Xmas

From: Roger Books <books@j...>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:50:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 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

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