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[Beth Katz]

Pete -

Interesting problem.

I have a copy of the Electronic AppWrapper dated Vol. 1, Nr. 2,
May 1993. However, as best I can tell, it doesn't go out over the
net to fetch any info. It seems to be self-contained.

It doesn't seem to contain a version of OmniWeb or of the other browser
sorts of things you are looking for.

I also have NeXT's Third Party Demonstration Software CDs dated 1992
and the NeXT Education Software Sampler CD dated Fall 1992.

I can look at these tomorrow if it would be helpful. I don't see any
of the things you mention in a look through the paper documentation.

However, other sorts of apps might have links. These have Connect! to
connect to Internet gateways and What's Happening to manage multiple
calendars over the network.

How early did NeXT include a link on the OS install CD for a network
time server? Is that something that would help?

I'll get back to you with what I learn.

Beth Katz

On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Pete Schreiber wrote:

> Dear OmniWeb List Members:
>
>
>
> Please excuse any interruption that this email may cause you. I am
> hoping that maybe one of the longstanding NeXT Computer developers on
> this list serve could assist me. My client has been sued by Disc  
> Link, a
> subsidiary of Acacia Technologies, for patent infringement over the
> right to essentially hyperlink (via a pre-programmed "static linkage
> reference") out of a CD-ROM deliverable, go over a network to a remote
> computer, and return a secondary set of information to the local
> computer. I am doing the prior art patent research in an effort to
> invalidate this software patent which was filed on July 27, 1994. I
> think the NeXT developer community could help defeat this software
> patent because the NeXT computer and NeXTSTEP OS were 10 years ahead  
> of
> its time.
>
>
>
> I am looking for tangible examples of CD-ROMs, most likely burned in  
> the
> 1986-1994 time period, that evidence some type of pre-programmed,  
> static
> linkage reference (e.g., URL, URI, etc.) to a remote computer. I am
> thinking of the following types of tangible examples:
>
>
>
> *         A copy of T B-L's original WWW, Nexus, or libwww browser
> burned to a CD-ROM on or before July 27, 1994 that would contain
> pre-programmed Bookmarks;
>
> *         A copy of any other early browsers (e.g., Emacs, NetSurfer,
> SpiderWoman, OmniWeb 0.5 <Beta release April 1994>, GOPHER, etc.)  
> burned
> to a CD-ROM on or before July 27, 1994 that would contain pre- 
> programmed
> Bookmarks;
>
> *         A copy of a dev utilities and freeware CD-ROM called
> "Electronic Appwrapper" from Paget Press (1992-1994) for NeXT  
> developers
> which may contain one or more of the above referenced browsers;
>
> *         Any type of digital user docs, help systems, Conference
> Proceedings, etc. that were burned onto a CD-ROM on or before July 27,
> 1994;
>
> *         Was a newsreader like NewsGrazer native to the NeXTSTEP OS  
> and
> would it have contained pre-programmed "Bookmarks" for the user to  
> go to
> known news sources in that era; or
>
> *         I am open to any other ideas that the NeXT/Apple developer
> community may have.
>
>
>
> Collectively, we have to work together to defeat bad software patents.
> Thank you for your time and consideration of this request. If you want
> to contact me via email <pschreiber> at my @esri.com address or  
> point me
> in the right direction that would be fine, or if you wanted to mail  
> me a
> copy of CD-ROM that was actually burned in the relevant time period  
> then
> I have provided my contact information below. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Pete
>
>
>
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>
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