11.14, Tuesday 13 Feb 2001

You know I don't think the patent WO0029980 should be valid, because the first four claims are for things I've been doing with Dirk for about two years.

The patent is owned by Lazy Software for their associative model of data concept. I've got no complaints with the applications they build on this idea, but what if someone had patented relational databases and not let them go? It's a too low-level and too obvious a technique.

Interconnectedness: So I reckon I own prior art. What should I do?