Package management patented?

[JoeHill]

>From Techfocus, Slashdot, etc.

"A company called Bluecurrent has been awarded a patent for updating
software over the internet. Yes, it's true. This is real. It sounds like
a joke. Almost every software since the beginning of the internet has
used the internet to update itself. It shouldn't be difficult to prove
prior art but the very fact that you would have to is laughable."

Link:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week42/OG/html/1275-3/US06636857-20031021.html

Look out Mandrake and Debian, urpmi and apt-get may have to be licensed
from these creative geniuses... ;-)

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