itix wrote:
Oh, this is interesting:
The much exalted Plug-and-Play could come to be only after Microsoft bought the Amiga AutoConfig technology patents.
:-?
Actually the patents to AutoMount expired before MicroSoft introduced Plug-and-Play. Trying to re-patent something that was already patented is unenforcable. That's why MicroSoft's plug-and-play patent is vulnerable to being overturned as it is preceeded by prior art.
