[tahoe-dev] Fwd: [p2p-hackers] Surely M$ can patent this process?

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> From: "Ian Clarke" <ian at locut.us>
> Date: January 29, 2008 7:08:11 PM MST
> To: "theory and practice of decentralized computer networks" <p2p- 
> hackers at lists.zooko.com>
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] [tahoe-dev] Surely M$ can patent this  
> process?
> Reply-To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks  
> <p2p-hackers at lists.zooko.com>
>
>>> Surely there must be prior art on this technique to refute this
>>> patent?
>
> I've done some mailing list archeology, and found this:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=freenet-dev&m=97941517228546&w=2
>
> Its a reference to content hashing on 12th Jan 2000, suggesting that
> we probably came up with the idea in late 1999.  I'm sure with some
> further digging I might be able to find an earlier reference.
>
> Ian.
>
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