need someone to develop this....

[Mikko Rauhala]

Quoting GWMobile <geopilot at mindspring.com>:
> [...] same as a public printing therefore I think it would still be 
> patentable.

If it wasn't old. Don't know if there are patents on it though.
Hopefully not, as those should go the way of the dodo anyway.

Not to say the OP couldn't have reinvented it personally (I don't know;
if so, good on him, and that would just go to show why patents are bad...)

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