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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2004-07-20, 18:07

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Originally Posted by thuh Freak
they filed in 2000... there has to be prior art. i'm inclined to think that nearly all distros of linux had something like this.
October 23, 1999. It was called Mac OS 9.

It had Software Update then, long before this patent was even filed.

BTC claims that Reisman's work dates back to the early 1990s, "well before the Internet became mainstream." Then why wasn't it patented back then before everyone else came up with the same idea? Sorry, guys. You snooze, you lose.

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