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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

What does this mean for PIW?  Could we use this to our advantage in grant
proposals - making this free/open source before it gets patented?  (Can you
tell what's on my mind, hehe)
*s

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Received: 06:46 AM PST, 03/21/2005
From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org, piw@lists.ibiblion.orgCc: 
Subject: [pcplantdb] Ugh, more nasty patents

As near as I can tell, Amazon is trying to patent what PIW more or
less is going to do.  Specifically they are trying to patent the
"Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to
enhance browsing of electronic catalogs"

Currently on the front page of slashdot:
<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1215224&tid=155&tid=1>

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Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'
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