[Linux-bruxelles] Checksumming Webpages Patented

[Mike Reys]

						2001-04-24 11:01

Hi Laurent Lardinois,
in reply to your mail [ [Linux-bruxelles] Checksumming Webpages Patented ] from  2001-04-24 09:47 +0200 :

We do read the news ourselves... thank you very much. 

Mike Reys
mike.reys at chello.be

It's a thin line between news and spam


On Today Laurent Lardinois wrote this piece about [Linux-bruxelles]...

>>> "
>>> http://www.slashdot.com
>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010423/0014.html
>>> 
>>> Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 23, @04:24PM
>>> from the now-that-one-takes-the-cake dept.
>>> 
>>> Just when you thought nothing else stupid could be patented, Wahfuz noted a
>>> story running about a company called Pumatech who has apparently patented
>>> storing a checksum of a webpage to determine if it has updated or not. I
>>> guess from now on everyone who wants to detect changes in web pages will
>>> need to store full copies of the pages in question, because I'm sure nobody
>>> thought of anything so complex as piping it through md5 and saving the
>>> output. "
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Laurent Lardinois
>>> IT Consultant - DS Improve
>>> http://www.dsimprove.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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