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In article <1991May7.214127.4334@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> A patent is not a right; it is
> a commercial incentive.  I can build a copy of any patented device, for
> my own use.  What I cannot do is derive commercial gain from it, or
> distribute it to others.

That summary is not entirely correct. If your use is ``for the sole
purpose of satisfying philosophical taste or curiosity, or for
instruction and amusement,'' then you're automatically safe. But if you
use compress and uncompress every day to download news, you'll have a
hard time pointing to the instruction or curiosity or amusement, even if
you don't make any money off the news.

---Dan