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Re: DNA Patents

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From: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 18:41
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In article <1992Feb28.130853.7683@bigsur.uucp> agc@bnr.ca (Alan Carter) writes:
>Can FSF publish the algorithms for taking fractions and copyleft them to
>everyone except governments? Then they wouldn't be allowed to calculate taxes.

No. If they weren't allowed to calculate fractions anymore, they would just
take *all* of your income.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
"The West at that time could only see it [the first Russian edition of
 the Communist Manifesto] as a literary curiosity. Such an attitude
 would be impossible today." -- Marx/Engels, Communist Manifesto
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Subject: Re: DNA Patents
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