I think the server got very busy for a while.  The link is real, but the
article appears to be incorrectly dated, s/b April 01.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Frank [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
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>
> I can't get Jim's link to work, but it looks like an article
> lifted from an old Onion article:
>
> http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
>
> Art
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> >>> Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]> 03/30/01 08:21AM >>>
> http://www.cnn.com@sci-tech@3520040376/new_010325/alert/breaki
ngnews.html

"REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary
step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by
competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero
Monday."

:-)