Re: converting an image to greyscale for diginegs

You're kidding, right? Business processes are patentable, and often
developed with off-the-shelf software. Now, I don't much like this, but
the patent office seems to think all is OK.

Pam

Michael Healy wrote:

> *From: Loris Medici <**_mail@loris.medici.name_**>*
> *Date sent: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:18:34 +0200*
>
> Sounds like it's the method "invented" by Russel Brown:
>
> See page _http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html_,
> scroll down to "Seeing in Black & White".
>
> ***********
>
> Um, reread your page a little more carefully, Loris. He didn't
> "invent" anything, he "discovered" it - in Photoshop. And then he
> patented it?! This must be the first time I've ever heard of a patent
> based on somebody else's proprietary software. As Frank Zappa once
> said, apropos of something not all that unrelated, "Hmmm... No
> foolin'...?"
>
> Mike
>
Received on Sat Feb 11 23:35:53 2006