TJ wrote: > Now that software patents are wholesale in the industry, it makes > this even more unlikely. Microsoft patented their CIFS protocol, aka > "file-sharing" in Windows, then licensed to everyone as an open > standard - BUT deliberately said you CANNOT use it for GPL or other > similar "share-alike" licenses. You can look it up, if you don't > believe me. To do so is a legal liability here in the US. I don't have the time to do the research to validate this statement. I'm interested in the links that you could provide to support it. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */