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WARNING ABOUT CCI++ (Re: Proposal for MIME embedding)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Sat Jan 21 19:57:56 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 01:26:20 +0100
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From: Paul Burchard <burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
Don't be fooled by the familiar "RFC-style" standards look. This
CCI++ thing is proprietary. But you have to go to their Web site
<URL:http://visembryo.ucsf.edu/eolas.html> to find that out:
## Eolas will soon begin licensing rights to both CCI++(TM)
## and MetaMAP(R) technologies.
Someone on the www-vrml list reported the following, much more
insidious rumor (I have no confirmation however):
Leonardo@aol.com wrote:
> The rumor is that this company has rights to a UC pending
> patent that relates to any API that allows a Web browser to
> read a compound document that includes embedded programs.
What?? If that isn't obvious, I don't know what is. I sure hope the
patent office doesn't fall for this one, although I can't say I'm
optimistic.
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