US Patent 5,603,031.

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 27 May 97 12:30:28 PDT

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JoeK's right, it looks like General Magic owns agents, and/or
any other "system and method for distributed computation based
upon the movement, execution, and interaction of processes in
a network." This doesn't bode well...

> From kiniry@cs.caltech.edu Mon May 26 10:41:41 1997
> Subject: general magic has just been granted a comprehensive patent on
> agent technology
>
> see http://www.genmagic.com/agents/patent.html for more information.
> basically, it looks like they have covered everything and are now
> rubbing it in.
>
> joe

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A free agent is anything but.

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