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Article #1245Re: hayes lawsuit
From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 02:32
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 02:32
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In article <14833@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes: #The fundamental question we have to answer is this: if software #patents are to be disallowed, what alternative mechanism would you #propose to encourage people to publish new algorithms? Those in academia already have incentive. Publishing advances your career. Considering how sucessful the software industry has been without software patents (since software patents are a very new invention) I would submit that the software industry has shown that it can prosper without software patents. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!stanford.edu!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.misc,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit Message-ID: <1991May20.023251.142@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 20 May 91 02:32:51 GMT References: <TMB.91May13041549@volterra.ai.mit.edu> <TMB.91May19100536@volterra.ai.mit.edu> <14833@ulysses.att.com> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 18