Re: First Ada Software patent issued to Air Force

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>Aharonian should also have done some more homework.  While reproducing the
>patent abstract was a tedious task undertaken with some time involved which
>I appreciate, finding out what the USAF requires for a license fee to use
>the patent is important because if the fee was "a dollar and a peppercorn"
>to US companies but $20,000 for a foreign corporation then it would be
>quite clear why the technology was patented in the first place.

Your statement was an unfinished thought.  What you are really saying is that
"Aharonian should also have done some more of the Air Force's homework".
Where are the bozos in the Air Force who applied for this patent and are
involved with the licensing.  Home come they have not posted a single byte
of  information to comp.lang.ada about their "great" invention, what it
does, the licensing information, and the rest of the homework you want.

It gets tiring to keep on posting information about DoD activities that the
appropriate DoD office should be posting.  How come no one on comp.lang.ada
ever asks why the ASSET group has yet to post anything about their activities
and resources?  Or DSRO, or VCOE, or any other similar efforts.

   The fact that the Air Force group who sought the patent has yet to post
any information to comp.lang.ada means to me that they are not very serious
about licensing the program, to which I conclude that whatever money they
spent obtaining a patent of dubious "originality" from a prior art poin of
view, it was tax dollars wasted.   And if the Air Force is going to try and
recoup its costs by licensing its technology and get into business, well,
correct me if I am wrong, but we fought the Cold War to contain that type
of government socialism.

    In short, get off my back and onto the backs of the Air Force people
who applied for the patent.

Greg Aharonian
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