[OSM-talk] Patents

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>:

>> Heh, I had a tile-based slippy map up and running at least four months
>> before the patent filing, albeit using Flash rather than AJAX:
>> http://www.systemeD.net/blog/entry041121193219.html (and subsequent)
> [snip]
> The important date is Feb 7, 2005.

Ok, so make that "at least two months before the patent filing".

cheers
Richard