Re: rpem: RSA patent questions

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From: Phil Howard KA9WGN
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 20:38

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dennis@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Dennis Ferguson) writes:

>patent holder.  This is the whole point.  Society gets to learn about
>the method, in return the inventor gets all the profits for a while.

There was once I time in which technology progressed so slowly that there
was definite social benefit to having a patent law.  Today I believe that
society no longer benefits from such patent law; it serves more to funnel
money to particular people in cases where the knowledge would eventually
become public anyway.  Technology has already gotten its boostrap from the
patent law; we don't need it anymore.
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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
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Subject: Re: rpem: RSA patent questions
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