[topicmaps-comment] RDF and RSS patented by Canadian company?

["H. Holger Rath" <holger.rath@empolis.com>]

Hi everybody,

Just read the news that a Canadian company claims to
have a patent on RDF/ RSS and starts to sue implementors
of RDF/ RSS. 

Find more about this at XML.com:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1016

Here is the (quite unreadable) patent:
http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta/txt/ep/0797/806/

Do we (= the TM community) have to fear a similar attack against
the Topic Map paradigm and its implementors?

Cheers,
--Holger

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