From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 04:52:57 EDT
"Dunno whether the email was sent as a joke"
You mean my email? Certainly I hoped my post would be entertaining, but
if you mean was I
trying to put one over on anyone, the answer is no.
"but the IBM patents site is merely an archive - it has no relation to
IBM's commercial ventures"
I was not aware of that - certainly nothing on that web page mentions
this, just describes the device
under the banner "IBM Intellectual property network."
BTW, I was directed to this site by an article in an online news
service, which speculated that
IBM would pull the site when they learned of it - the implication being
that, like me, they assumed that it
was an IBM site.
Had I known otherwise, I would not have made the post, since as a mere
joke it is rather weak; I apologize to all for passing this on.
- David R.
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