From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,70b1ec259f5108f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-24 03:13:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, XML and M$ Patents Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: k-083152.nt.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1074942790 22405 129.241.83.152 (24 Jan 2004 11:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:13:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4765 Date: 2004-01-24T11:13:10+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-01-24, Preben Randhol wrote: > Yet another brain-dead patent that is only to hinder progress > > http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5146581.html?tag=nefd_top > Oops hit send before I finished. What I wanted to say was that I bet that soon there will be a patent on making GUI via XML schemas etc... -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."