Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: John Warner
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 21:35

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jsdy@cais2.cais.com (Joseph S. D. Yao) wrote:
>In article <3fk65t$no5@tardis.Tymnet.COM>,
>Joe Smith <jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM> wrote:
>>The use of XOR is patented, unfortunately.
>>Someone is charging royalties from the big computer companies for the use of
>>XOR to create nondestructive cursor (for text or graphics).  ...
>
>First off, a patent on the use of XOR in a specific algorithm is hardly
>a patent on the use of XOR.
>
>Second off, this is such an obvious algorithm (around even when I was
>in school, a few decades ago), that I suspect this to be "urban folk-
>lore", and will continue to think so until and unless unless someone
>out there can speak up and say that they have actually paid money out
>of pocket for this use.

Joe,  I don't think you thought that last line thru. I am almost certain some
idiot out there has indeed paid good money for XOR and NAND etc. Not
suggesting he/she had to, just that you can never under-estimate the
intelligence of the public (programmers included).

Regards,
John
jwarner@globalvision.net

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From: jwarner@globalvision.net (John Warner)
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