From erikjosefsson@usa.net  Sat Jun 16 13:45:29 2001
From: erikjosefsson@usa.net (erik josefsson)
Date: 16 Jun 2001 06:45:29 MDT
Subject: [Patents] Re: 80,000 signatures
Message-ID: <20010616124529.6456.qmail@nwcst333.netaddress.usa.net>

Mr Riley,

In your career, were you ever forced to invent around an existing patent?=


Do you have any advice to give based on that experience?

Your merits as a programmer and inventor are overwhelming. But the credib=
ility
of your call to others to "Invent [...] an equally good alternative way o=
f
doing the same job", depends upon how you dealt with patents yourself. Wo=
rking
around them that is, not filing them.

regards

Erik Josefsson

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