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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Gregory Aharonian wrote:

> > .. could [Greg] point to any economic study that hints that software
> > patents could be useful economically or technically, ......

> My bet is that the effects of software patents are indistinguishable

I take it you mean there is no evidence ?

Rik
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