From Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>  Fri May  4 09:22:46 2001
From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:22:46 +0200
Subject: [Patents] Burce Perens: Software Patents vs. Free Software
In-Reply-To: <200105040322.XAA15997@world.std.com>; from Gregory Aharonian on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:22:59PM -0400
References: <200105040322.XAA15997@world.std.com>
Message-ID: <20010504102246.C21617@margaux.inria.fr>

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >Now we may regard the price/unit where we still get your investment
> >back for selling services based upon .... [ developing hardware and
> >software]
> 
> Irrelevant.  Patent laws have never concerned themselves with relative
> returns on investment.

get an education !

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