Larry, I was with you right along until you blamed this on the technology sector: "...yet another term that IT has hijacked..." To me, this patent just goes right along with the defective copyright / patent system in this country, and has nothing to do with IT except that idiotic courts have upheld things as patentable simply when they're implemented (or implementable) by a computer system. It has to do with IT only inasmuch as IT is the differentiating factor from manual systems, and certainly has nothing to do with IT people "hijacking" anything. -D --- ------------------------- DR. DAVID T. MACKNET MCP, MCSD, BA, MSc, MLitt, PhD email: [log in to unmask] Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishiwerebaking/ [1] Blog: http://davimack.members.sonic.net/blog/ [2] LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacknet [3] Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/6850/david-t-macknet [4] Links: ------ [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishiwerebaking/ [2] http://davimack.members.sonic.net/blog/ [3] http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacknet [4] http://stackoverflow.com/users/6850/david-t-macknet List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
