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From: Francois PELLEGRINI <pelegrin@labri.fr>
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Christian Beauprez wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> *Thanks to you all for explaining the concept of "forces of nature" to me. *
> *I wanted to make public the fact that I was wrong in my earlier 
> assertion that it was obsolete.*
>  
> *The problem with the existing doctrine was not that it was incorrect or 
> obsolete, rather that it was difficult to understand from a 
> non-legalistic or "technical" perspective. *

You can find (a start of) an explanation of it in :

http://www.abul.org/brevets/articles/parlement_20030924.php3
(sorry, it is in French)

				f.p.



