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From: Jean-Marc Libs libs@cybercable.tm.fr
Subject: [Patents] Article about patents and their real use
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 01:37:49 +0100 (CET)

It seems that our problems with patents reflect issues which used to
be commonplace a century ago (and then patents were found to be
anticompetitive, until today) :
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/opinion/story?id=382a24f90

It's not particularly about software, but it raises a lot of
issues about the way patents are going to be used.

Regards,
Jean-Marc Libs

--
"The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit
consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide
with Microsoft's self-interest."
-- Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Judge, in Findings of Fact

[Patents] Article about patents and their real use, Jean-Marc Libs libs

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