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>From slashdot ...<br>
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samzenpus
on Wednesday March 23, @08:09PM</b><br>
<font size="2"><b>from the they-don't-own-it-yet dept.</b></font><br>
<a href="http://slashdot.org/%7EsebFlyte">sebFlyte</a> writes <i>"In
what is described as <a
href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39192452,00.htm">yet
another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards</a>,
a patent has come to light that was granted to Microsoft in the year
2000 that looks surprisingly similar to IPv6 (the next-gen IP standard
that is starting, slowly, to be taken up in some parts of the world).
And several Microsoft engineers, named on <a
href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6101499.html"> the patent</a>
just happenned to be part of the IPv6 group for the IETF..."<br>
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It refers to a ZDNet article at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39192452,00.htm">http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39192452,00.htm</a><br>
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WJM <br>
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