[Linux-aus] Projects killed by Patents

[Anthony Towns]

Tim Connors wrote:
> The rproxy thing is also a sad story.  Imagine if a daily apt-get update
> didn't involve the download of 27 megs of crap everytime, just because a
> package had its version number bumped up, because the http server/client
> combination were smart enough to just talk about diffs?

http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/01/28

Cheers,
aj