Re: rpem: RSA patent questions

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From: Klein Gilhousen
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:58

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In article <1991May21.203853.5180@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>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.

Yea, right.  Everything that needs to be invented has already been 
invented.  So who needs patents.

Klein Gilhousen, WT6G
Qualcomm, Inc.

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