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'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles'.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici
> Sent: 15 April 2005 17:06
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: Metaballs - regarding patent.
>
> Michael Jackson?
>
> Pingo wrote:
>
> > who would wanna wake up in a monkey anyway...
> >
> > On Apr 15, 2005, at 14:25, Adrian Wyer wrote:
> >
> >> actually, Kim DOES hold the patent for crossing the road.....
> >> i think Ben holds the one for waking up in the monkey
> >>
> >>
> >> this thread is SO discussion list bound
> >>
> >> adrian wyer
> >> head of 3d
> >> milltv
> >> adrian@(protected)
> >> www.the-mill.com
> >> t: +44 (0)20 7287 4041
> >> f: +44 (0)20 7915 0551
> >>
> >> -- -- Original Message -- -- From: "John Norman"
> >> <john.norman@(protected)>
> >> To: <XSI@(protected)>
> >> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:59 PM
> >> Subject: RE: Metaballs - regarding patent.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> Kim Aldis wrote:
> >>>>> " It's like holding a patent on crossing the road or
> waking up in
> >>>>> the morning. "
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hey Kim, you made my day!
> >>> You put it so well, LOL.
> >>>
> >>> John Norman
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -- --Original Message-- --
> >>> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On
> >>> Behalf Of kim aldis
> >>> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:59 PM
> >>> To: XSI@(protected)
> >>> Subject: RE: Metaballs - regarding patent.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Specifically software patents, not patents in general. For a good
> >>> example, remember back to Quantel's famous assertion that
> they had a
> >>> patent on something like 'the writing and reading of values to a
> >>> framebuffer'.
> >>> They
> >>> attempted to sue a couple of companies a few years ago,
> most notably
> >>> a Japanese company, as test cases. Their assertions
> weren't upheld
> >>> but because their patent was found to be invalid, rather than
> >>> because a court thought it was dumb that any one company
> should hold
> >>> restrictive rights to such a fundamental action.
> >>> Remember, every action you take on a modern computer
> requires that
> >>> something is read or written to a framebuffer, even just moving a
> >>> mouse. It's like holding a patent on crossing the road or
> waking up
> >>> in the morning.
> >>>
> >>> If that particular patent had been upheld then one of two things
> >>> would have happened; Quantel would have asked for money in return
> >>> for a license or they would have used it restrictively such that
> >>> only they could manuacture anything that used the
> patented item. The
> >>> former, you'd be paying more money for your computer, the latter,
> >>> you'd be buying kit only from Quantel, which is kind of scary.
> >>>
> >>> Here's a few views on the subject:-
> >>>
> >>> http://www.base.com/software-patents/examples.html for some
> >>> interesting examples
> >>>
> >>> http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html for a good overview.
> >>>
> >>>> -- --Original Message-- --
> >>>> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> >>>> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Alastair Hearsum
> >>>> Sent: 15 April 2005 10:12
> >>>> To: 'XSI@(protected)'
> >>>> Subject: RE: Metaballs - regarding patent.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sorry if this is a heretical question and if I haven't thought
> >>>> about this deeply enough but what is wrong with the idea of
> >>>> patents?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Alastair Hearsum
> >>>>
> >>>> -- --Original Message-- --
> >>>> From: Joe Saltzman [mailto:joe@(protected)]
> >>>> Sent: 14 April 2005 20:39
> >>>> To: XSI mail list
> >>>> Subject: Metaballs - regarding patent.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I just did a simple google search.... this is what I
> came up with.
> >>>>
> >>>> Seems like GE may hold the patent -- they might have become
> >>>> aggressive in its enforcement -- do you want to take a
> chance on an
> >>>> infringement case with GE? Could you afford to fight
> such a case?
> >>>> I don't think most people could do.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just another reason why software patents are not a good
> thing IMHO.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Joe Saltzman
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Subject 5.11: What is the status of the patent on the
> "marching cubes"
> >>>> algorithm?
> >>>>
> >>>> United States Patent Number: 4,710,876 Date of Patent:
> Dec. 1, 1987
> >>>> Inventors: Harvey E. Cline, William E. Lorensen
> >>>> Assignee: General Electric Company
> >>>> Title: "System and Method for the Display of Surface Structures
> >>>> Contained Within the Interior Region of a Solid Body"
> >>>> Filed: Jun. 5, 1985
> >>>>
> >>>> United States Patent Number: 4,885,688 Date of Patent:
> Dec. 5, 1989
> >>>> Inventor: Carl R. Crawford
> >>>> Assignee: General Electric Company
> >>>> Title: "Minimization of Directed Points Generated in
> >>>> Three-Dimensional Dividing Cubes Method"
> >>>> Filed: Nov. 25, 1987
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I've heard this before and it seems rather absurd.
> Metaballs were
> >>>> in Soft 3D and Houdini before Rem Inforgaphica patented them.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have never heard of patents being retroactive.
> >>>>
> >>>> - -- --Original Message-- --
> >>>> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [owner-xsi@(protected)]
> On Behalf
> >>>> Of peterb
> >>>> Sent: April 14, 2005 1:16 PM
> >>>> To: XSI@(protected)
> >>>> Subject: Re: Metaballs....
> >>>>
> >>>> And it didnt stop any competition for implementing them either...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - -- -- Original Message -- --
> >>>> From: "Andi Farhall" <andi@(protected)>
> >>>> To: <XSI@(protected)>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:04 AM
> >>>> Subject: RE: Metaballs....
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> > daft question i know but which algorithm did soft|3d
> use? There
> >>>> > was obviously no patent problem there so how come now.....
> >>>>
> >>>>
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