PE> In fairness, there are probably about 3 cases of it in the
 PE> world. You could well be number 4. That would be good for a
 PE> laugh, getting a patent on being about to send a string to your
 PE> modem if you receive the word "CONNECT" from your modem.

 BL> The idea and its implementation are perfectly patentable...
 BL> just like icons were. Code is $35 an hour; the Apple patent was
 BL> worth a billion.

 ALM> They might have been but he's published in a public forum now
 ALM> so he's rooted. 

  Yair... that's what I told him. If I'd had an idea like that, I'd
have grabbed it like a Bombay beggar on a silver dollar. The way Paul
goes, he'll end up having a brilliant original idea, and give it away
without ever knowing he could have been as rich as Bill Gates.

Regards,
Bob
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