Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Jay Plett
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 01:45

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I have no quarrel with the points made in the captioned article;
rather, I consider them well taken.  But I will object to one
statement:

In article <1727@opus.NMSU.Edu>, sitze@nmsu.edu (Richard Sitze) writes:
> If [somebody] owns the patent on byte ordering, so be it.  THEY
> HAVE THE RIGHT to protect their patent which they appear to be doing.

If anybody owns a patent on byte ordering, or on using a network
standard byte order for transferring data among diverse machines, they
have the duty to dedicate that patent to the public domain.  Else
reason has no meaning.

	...jay

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From: jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett)
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Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
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Date: 17 Jul 91 01:45:27 GMT
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