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In article <KARL.91Aug21112804@ra.cs.umb.edu>, karl@cs.umb.edu writes:
I, Scott Horne, write:
<> Excuse me, but I don't see GNU champing at the bit to use anyone's patented
<> ideas.
<
<I don't remember the original thread of this conversation, but this
<statement, while true, is, unfortunately, not the problem.  The problem
<is that GNU (and any other programmer) cannot *avoid* using patented
<ideas or algorithms, at least when such include the absurdities
<currently being perpetrated by the PTO.

I realise that.  I was responding to the suggestion that GNU would benefit
from a patent policy under which it could use others' (non-trivial, claimed
the poster, but his proposal isn't clear at all) patented algorithms.

					--Scott

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