[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey covered by IBM patent?

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 6/2/05, Simon Willison <cs1spw at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 2 Jun 2005, at 21:48, Justin Mason wrote:
> >   altering the formatting information to modify at least one display
> >   characteristic of the Web document; and
> >
> >   passing the Web document to the browser for display.
> 
> In that case, Greasemonkey's fine. It doesn't "alter the formatting
> information" before passing the document to the browser - instead, it
> waits until the browser has displayed the document and /then/ applies
> changes to it.

You seem to have missed my main point, which is that WE ARE NOT
LAWYERS and READING PATENT CLAIMS IS HARD, therefore we should not
have an endless (and inevitably pointless) discussion trying to
interpret whether this or any other patent would affect Greasemonkey.

If there are any bona fide IP attorneys on this list who would be
willing to give free legal advice, then I will listen to them. 
Everyone else on this thread is getting killfiled.

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Cheers,
-Mark