they filed in 2000. i aint no lawyer, but it seems to me that the ftp has been around for a long time. i can setup an ftp server, which in a directory lists installer packages, and make some scripts on the client side to download from that ftp site and run the installer packages. if i read that patent dealie right, my ftp+script solution would be in violation. fuck me if no one thought of that 5 years ago. there has to be prior art. i'm inclined to think that nearly all distros of linux had something like this.
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