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In article <1991Nov17.151222.21312@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> huntley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley) writes:
>Some of the other companies are
>Xerox (which sued Apple, but isn't usually mentioned on the boycott
>list), 

Xerox sued for copyright misrepresentation.  There is a difference, you
know.

>Also, IBM, DEC, MIPS, Xerox
>and AT&T are filing algorithm patents as fast as they can, and
>algorithm patents are much more pernicious than user interface
>copyrights, yet the FSF does *nothing* to discourage these companies
>from patenting everything in sight!

Because most of them haven't threatened "free software."  (Yet.)  IBM claims
that it only patents to encourage cross-liscensing of patents, not to
prohibit the use of the patented algorithm by people who are not trying to
cause IBM to pay money for patent infringement.  (If you can parse that,
more power to you 8-).)  While I don't really believe IBM is that
altruistic, I know of no behavior counter to that.  Similarly for DEC, MIPS,
etc.

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