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In article <1992Dec24.203040.18122@primerd.prime.com> jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain writes:

   In article <BzrvK9.7xv@mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)    writes:
   |> In article <1hbllvINNfj5@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
   |> >There is an active patent infringement lawsuit against Novell claiming
   |> >that Novell NetWare infringes this client-server patent.  According to
   |> >what I've read, the patent's claims are _very_ broad, and some legal
   |> >experts think that if this goes to trial, the patent holder (an
   |> >independent engineer, _not_ another corporate behemouth) may well win.
   |> 
   |> a) Does anybody have more info on this?
   |> 
   |> b) If this is really as described, maybe it would be A Good Thing if this
   |> independent engineer won such a suit... it could well mean that that 
   |> corporate America would start to rethink the value of software patents
   |> if such a thing happened, no?

   I don't think so. We can't praise one person for the same thing which
   we condemn whole corporations.

Nonono.  He's saying that corporate America might start perceiving
software patents as a Bad Thing if they lost a few millions in
royalties.  But can good come of evil?

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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