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Article #74744Re: False assumptions re: patents
From: Mike Waters
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 17:05
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 17:05
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In article <7421:Mar606:04:0391@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <881@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters) writes:
>> I was intending to address the implication (openly stated elsewhere)
>> that anyone who writes 10 lines of code will be sued for all they
>> posess. Of course that is nonsense.
>
>LZW compression takes under five lines of APL.
THe entire description of the world takes only five lines of APL.
So what?
I still don't see the "patent police" inspecting every line of code I
write.
--
*Mike Waters AA4MW/7 waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com *
Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to
exciting Camden, New Jersy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b0a85d23901c1430 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-07 03:26:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nddsun1!waters From: waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: False assumptions re: patents Message-ID: <898@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> Date: 6 Mar 91 17:05:36 GMT References: <GUMBY.91Mar3113623@Cygnus.COM> <881@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <7421:Mar606:04:0391@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Hacker's haven Lines: 20