Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3019] technical question

[Kurt Siegl <007@freemail.at>]

On Die, 21 Mär 2000  Chawla, Jay wrote:
>group.  Furthermore, the group message server must be able to aggregate
>messages, i.e. if
>the server receives a bunch of messages addressed to a group, it can
>concatenate them and
>send them out in a single packet.

If you consider also game stearing commands as messsages, yes we can also
fullfill this one and with short packages we have some nice package compression
algorithms, worth an own patent ;-) All other things are fullfilled trivially.

>My basic question is: does Netrek do all of this stuff and how can I prove
>it?  More specifically,

I would say in terms of patentable things yes and by reading what the patent
claims in detail definitely yes. it looks like they copied Netrek here.

>how can I prove it did this stuff before 1995?  (Source code, design
>documents, user documents, etc.)
>Is there an archive of such things anywhere?

On ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/netrek/src/
you will find some files which stay there untouched since 1992, and I should
be able to find even older ones, but that's not necessary anyway.

What you need for example is calvin-2.2pl3.tar.gz a Netrek Server placed on this
ftp server in Sept. 1993 and BRM.3.00pl3.tar.gz a netrek client untouched since
Jan 1994.

On ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/netrek/hints/ you will find lots of
documentations and playing tips all untouched since 1993.

>Thanks for any help you can give me!

No problem, we do everything we can do against stupid patents :-)

Kurt (007)

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