From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T10:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: SOT gmail invites

From: "tony summerfelt" <snowzone5@hotmail.com>
>
> >Software patents are like, if you play guitar, Eddie Van Halen
> >patenting Tapping (two-handed hammer-on technique).  The damned
> >*IDEA* is the easy part.  It's the implementation that's hard.
> 
> i would be upset if eddie got that particular patent...he certainly
> didn't invent it. 

Sorry I wasn't expressing myself very clearly.  I didn't mean
to imply that he *had* applied for the patent, just that the
level of absurdity seemed well-matched to that of software
patents.



Sorry for the noise,


Regards,

Bill