From Nick@bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk  Thu Aug 16 20:24:05 2001
From: Nick@bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk (Nick Fleming)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:24:05 +0100
Subject: [Patents] Re: Patents and corporate power
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> > Read Howard Zinn.  Read Noam Chomsky.  Cancel your NY Times
> > subscription, turn off your TV, and look elsewhere if you want the
> > facts.
> 
> While this may be so, it has relatively little to do with our discussion.
> In the case of the patent mess, the responsible people are sitting in
> Brussels and Munich.
> 

I think the following interview with Noam Chomsky will be of great
interest to just about everyone reading this discussion. Its not 
directly about patents, but should help focus anyones opinion if they 
are not already convinced that giving large corporations more power is
a bad idea :

 http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/microsoft/chomsky.html

regards,

Nick Fleming.



