Uh...what about IRC? Was around long before ICQ. And UNIX for that matter...could finger user (see if they're online) and talk user (chat) long, long ago.Facts like these are hardly relevant when talking about the USPTO!
AOL patents Instant Messaging
- (Steve Lowe)
- (12)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 11:38:35 AM EST
Bah!
- (Yendor)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 12:04:49 PM EST
even existed in the days of BBSes
- (SpiceWare)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 12:11:00 PM EST
Heh...How about this irony...
- (Yendor)
- (1)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 12:14:38 PM EST
shhhh
- (Steve Lowe)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 12:42:08 PM EST
What about Novell and message?
- (folkert)
- (3)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 04:17:26 PM EST
talk goes back to the seventies(core nix app)
-NT
- (boxley)
- (2)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 05:05:37 PM EST
As the commercial goes...
- (folkert)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 05:28:19 PM EST
Had it on IBM CP/67-CMS back in late 60's too.
- (a6l6e6x)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 05:42:52 PM EST
can they be sued for infringement of public domaine software
- (boxley)
- (3)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 05:12:59 PM EST
Probably not.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (2)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 05:59:46 PM EST
talk does that using /etc/passwd
- (boxley)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 06:23:41 PM EST
That is still not new
- (ben_tilly)
- Dec. 18, 2002, 07:03:33 PM EST