Well, I just received a letter in the mail from Al Gore asking for money 
each time I get on the internet, since he invented it :)

On a serious note, I googled 'acacia technologies iar' and there were 
several articles on this subject, even a few from the m0n0 mail list 
archives.  There seemed to be more than a few people that questioned the 
validity of the patent claims.  You may want to check those out and 
perhaps grab a few email addresses of people who have probably gone down 
this path with these people already and see what they did and what happened.

Matt Juszczak wrote:

> That is total crap.  How can something like that be valid?  I read the 
> article, but can they really enforce something like that?  Captive 
> Portal technology is so easily developed and distributed ... What the 
> heck?
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, C. Falconer wrote:
>
>> Tell them that Bill Gates owns the patent on being an asshole :)
>>
>> Or that SCO owns the patent on frivolous threatening for financial gain!
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bryan Catlin [mailto:bryancatlin at connectgroup dot net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2004 5:41 a.m.
>> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>> Subject: [m0n0wall] Patent Rights
>>
>>
>> I know this might not be the best place for it but we use monowall 
>> for most
>> of our gateways and we have been contacted by this company that is 
>> demanding
>> lots of money per year from us saying they own the patent on the 
>> process of
>> redirection and/or proxying.  I was wondering if anyone has heard of 
>> them or
>> been contacted, on similar this?
>>
>> Their site with info on their patent is
>> http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/technology_iar.htm
>>
>> At first glance it looks like they have a technology like monowall 
>> but then
>> their pdfs go on to say they own the process and are licensing it to 
>> other
>> providers.  I am just trying to see if this is for real or not.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Bryan Catlin
>>
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