What Clean Specs Achieve, WAS: Colonialism, SAX, Java, and Namespaces

[Tim Bray]

At 11:51 PM 2/8/99 -0000, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>If I want to store my data in reverse-Polish Hamming-coded
>object structures, using the eyelids of lizards to represent base-4
>numbers (two lizards per byte), then that's up to me. 

You'd better not do that; it's covered by US Patent 4,234,611. -Tim

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