[9039] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: EOLAS ACQUIRES MILLSTONE INTERNET SOFTWARE PATENT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Tue Aug 29 11:12:53 1995
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 11:15:16 -0400
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
To: miked@eolas.com
Cc: burchard@cs.princeton.edu, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199508212057.NAA11996@netcom4.netcom.com> (miked@eolas.com)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>As for the comment concerning the Z39.50 standards committee meeting, our
>claims relate specifically to embedded interactive program objects in World
>Wide Web documents, not just downloading executable code for general
>document rendering.
I wrote a system more than 5 years ago in which documents were
represented in a structured manner, and in which embedded applications
were possible. I cannot see how the phrase "WWW" can be the prime
differentiator. What is so special about the WWW?