[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: patent on webaplications?

[Sebastian Mendel]

Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> just looked at that patent :-).
> 
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:52:47 +0100
> Sebastian Mendel <lists at sebastianmendel.de> wrote:
> 
>> my english is not as good to fully nderstand this patent:
>>
>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,000,180.WKU.&OS=PN/7,000,180&RS=PN/7,000,180
>>
>> is this in someway problematic to us?
> 
> Anyway only interesting thing there is:
> 
> Filed: 	 February 9, 2001
> 
> So it is no problem as it was two years after initial phpMyAdmin
> release. In case we use something patented there, I thing you have good
> chance to win if they decide to sue you.

;-)

but now we cannot implement AJAX functionality ... :-( *g*


btw. i don't take it too hard/heavy, i just want to mention

and personally i don't care much about software patents - but phpMyAdmin 
is not only used in Europe ...


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