| Turbo Fredriksson 2005-07-06, 5:53 pm |
| Quoting Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk>:
> Stephen Birch <sgbirch@imsmail.org> writes:
>
>
> Note that this particular patent is:
> EP Status: Granted. Within 9 month opposition window
>
> So if you have *proof of prior art* you can oppose the patent grant
>
> In practical terms, this means someone who can "prove" that the Debian
> Packaging system does this. Which probably means an Official
> Debian Person sending the letter, with dates of when the technology was
> introduced into Debian, and perhaps extracts from the Packaging Manuals
> of the period to show this.
YEARS (!) ago I wrote the script that did the pre-upgrades to 'bo' (I _think_
it was to 'bo' any way  . It basically only ftp'd (or was it wget?)
required packages from the Debian GNU/Linux FTP site(s), installed them
and then allowed the user/admin to continue with the upgrade...
Now, that seems like 'prior art' to me (even to apt-get .
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