[JDEV] integrity messenger questions

[Dave]

Well, if prior art didn't prevent that bot buddy company from getting
patents on IM bots, what's to make us think Integrity Messenger won't
be able to patent IM itself?

A tad paranoid, and borderline delusional,
 - Dave


On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:22:44PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Tijl Houtbeckers wrote:
> 
> > And don't forget this part of their website:
> > 
> > http://www.integritymessenger.com/about.php
> > 
> > quote:
> > "
> > It is that desire that has propelled Integrity Messenger to strive for 
> > excellence, and achieve industry first technologies never before seen 
> > in an Instant Messaging solution. **Many of the technologies within the 
> > Integrity Messenger are presently being filed for patent.** (my 
> > emphasis) 
> > 
> > Integrity Messenger would like to thank The Jabber Foundation at this 
> > time for allowing us to temporarily infrastructure our software on 
> > their server solution while we prepare to launch our own XML/SIP based 
> > server. Special thanks to David (the Founder) and Peter for their 
> > invitation to join their network." 
> 
> Note that they consider Dave Smith to be the "Founder" of Jabber. I had
> several long telephone conversations with these folks, and Dave joined me
> on one of them. Somehow they got the notion that he founded Jabber. Not
> sure how, though.
> 
> While I don't seek to minimize Justin's pain in dealing with these people,
> I think it's important to understand that they are not a major threat to
> the Jabber community. My strong impression from talking with them is that
> they were incompetent, paranoid, and borderline delusional. Whether they
> lack basic moral scruples or just don't know what they are doing, I'm not
> sure (I tend toward the former but I like to give people the benefit of
> the doubt). But I can tell you that their supposed patent applications
> will not be successful if they are attempting to patent things related to
> or based on Jabber -- the Jabber community possesses evidence of prior art
> going back to at least the summer of 1999, and Integrity Messenger is a
> much more recent creation.
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation
> http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> jdev mailing list
> jdev at jabber.org
> http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev

-- 
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare
at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".
        -- Linus Torvalds

Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
        -- ksh at cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93