Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread brian
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a person with a some decade

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > As a person with a some decades of experi

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread brian
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About a year later I was talking with a group of business owners who had > > also received a similar demand letter. Some paid, some didn't. Those > > who didn't pay were not pursued other than the occasional copy of the > > demand letter. On S