[Sigia-l] More on CMS hilarity

[Andrew H Otwell]

Could you ask for a wackier combination than CMS company idiocy and US
Patent Office ignorance?

The complete mention on Slashdot is short:

"It seems like the USPO is pretty lenient when it comes to awarding software
patents. CVS has been around for a long time, but now Interwoven has been
awarded a new patent covering version control of web assets. The claims
include, 'The use of a hierarchical file system and an object repository for
representing and hosting content and its structure,' and 'The combined
concepts of file history, versioning, comparison, and merging as it relates
to content, provide an archive of all individual changes as well as
collections of changes so they can be versioned and audited."

Read the same paragraph at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1736237&mode=nocomment&tid=1
03&tid=155&tid=156