We've been doing it all wrong!

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From: Russ Nelson
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1991 13:20

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We've been trying to kill software patents the wrong way!  What we need
to do is patent every damn thing we can think of, and make the
license fee require the use of the GPL.  A few basic patents on things,
and we'd have the industry sewn up.  The software business community would
scream for the abolishment of software patents.

The only flaw in this plan is the cost of patenting something.  :(

--
--russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.

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