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   Damn the patents!

   

   agent orange, Aug 15th, 2002 @ 2:00pm

   
   

   Active Buddy was built on open-source (I thought). How do you patent and open-source application?

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   What an ass.

   

   Randy Cartwright, Aug 15th, 2002 @ 2:06pm

   
   

   I mean that guy may be a good person ( giving him the benefit of the doubt ) but, he comes across as one of the worst kind of weaselly, corporate, we're-going-to-sue-you types around. He should just come out and say, "We don't care what all these unfunded losers think because, we have a patent and money for lawyers."

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   My favorite prior art...

   

   Gordon Mohr, Aug 15th, 2002 @ 3:32pm

   
   

   ..for this particular bad patent is stuff we did at my previous company Activerse, a couple of years before ActiveBuddy was founded. See my weblog for the full details.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 15th, 2002 @ 7:00pm

   
   

   isn't the concept spelled out pretty well in a Turing test? Circa 1910??? I'm guessing that patent won't hold up...

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   i thought so...

   

   todd, Aug 15th, 2002 @ 7:06pm

   
   

   Here's a link to someone who created an AI bot that passed the Turing test (he claims) in 1989 using a crude Vax VMS version of "chat"
   http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/eliza.html
   
   Actually, he has a good set of links on old AI and chat 'bots'.
   
   Good luck with enforcing that patent, cocky mofo.
   
   And another big "thanks" to our patent office!

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   intellect sucks, May 16th, 2006 @ 5:43am

   
   

   U All r GAY

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   Eggdrop

   

   SC, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 6:04am

   
   

   Do I really need to point out all of the IRC bot scripts/programs that have existed over the years? I created bots prior to the filing of that patent. One would even monitor conversations in a small channel and try to learn appropriate responses. (It didn't work that well)
   
   How could anyone possibly think this was a unique and new patentable idea. While IRC isn't exactly the same as IM it's not that terribly far off, and this is just an extension of pre-existing work.
   
   I think they need to create a new computer division of the patent office that isn't so moronic.

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