Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:46:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:46:47 -0500 Received: from anime.net ([63.172.78.150]:61968 "EHLO anime.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:46:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:47:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Hollis To: cc: Subject: Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.] In-Reply-To: <20010218140839.A14166@top.worldcontrol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > As a person with a some decades of experience with patents and > trademarks, and playing among the various sides, I can state > quite unequivocally that the problem is money. Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor). -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/