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Article #1395Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
From: Anthony J Stieber
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:24
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:24
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In article <1992Dec17.012658.11627@u.washington.edu> tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >So why did Apple pay off the guy who claimed Hypercard infringed his >patent rather than just litigate his tiny company out of existence? Because patents are very strong in the US so Apple would probably lose after spending more money than the payoff. This is one of those few examples where patent law hass been beneficial for a small company. It sounds like he had a software patent which is something that I feel should not exist anyway. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ? Date: 17 Dec 1992 07:24:45 GMT Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 11 Message-ID: <1gp9vtINNp9t@uwm.edu> References: <F7LVVB14w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1gnu87INNguv@uwm.edu> <1992Dec17.012658.11627@u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4