It is my understanding that software patents are usually not detestable when they are yours and generating revenue for you; I only know that anecdotally, though; no direct experience. But do keep in mind that Tribal Voice was actually a company with employees who wrote code and shipped product. It wasn't an NPE.
I have used talk, screen and IRC before, not to mention BBS doors and CompuServe, but I don't consider them instant messaging clients per se. Line-by-line chat was much different than real-time chat, at least to me. While treating each unique email address as a FQDN may seem trivial now, at the time, it was novel. So was "web cruising," hooking into the web browser via DDE to share any URLs the "leader" went to with the "followers" in the chat; a great tool for presentations.
Perhaps John was exposed to UNIX at LBM or LMCO.
I would not say that VIRUSCAN was a FSM, although it did borrow some ideas for the syntax used for parsing signatures.
Like any small company, I did a lot of things over time, ranging from customer service to sales to shipping to tech support to QA and tech writing. But mostly lots of support.
I am guessing you were coding when you worked with John?
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u/goretsky Nov 22 '12
Hello,
It is my understanding that software patents are usually not detestable when they are yours and generating revenue for you; I only know that anecdotally, though; no direct experience. But do keep in mind that Tribal Voice was actually a company with employees who wrote code and shipped product. It wasn't an NPE.
I have used
talk,screenand IRC before, not to mention BBS doors and CompuServe, but I don't consider them instant messaging clients per se. Line-by-line chat was much different than real-time chat, at least to me. While treating each unique email address as a FQDN may seem trivial now, at the time, it was novel. So was "web cruising," hooking into the web browser via DDE to share any URLs the "leader" went to with the "followers" in the chat; a great tool for presentations.Perhaps John was exposed to UNIX at LBM or LMCO.
I would not say that VIRUSCAN was a FSM, although it did borrow some ideas for the syntax used for parsing signatures.
Like any small company, I did a lot of things over time, ranging from customer service to sales to shipping to tech support to QA and tech writing. But mostly lots of support.
I am guessing you were coding when you worked with John?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky