Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: tim werner
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 01:27

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>From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys,gnu.misc.discuss,alt.gif-agreement,alt.online-service.compuserve
>Date: 18 Jan 1995 14:53:49 -0800
>
>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).

Isn't that Apple?  And, isn't that patent one of the reasons for the
existence of the Free Software Foundation, and the Apple boycott?

tw

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