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From: brian@worldcontrol.com
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:09:42 -0800
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
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Subject: Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]
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> > 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.

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> > 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.

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil
> at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor).

Many have heard the saying 'money is the root of all evil'.

The quote is in fact 'the pursuit of money is the root of all evil'.

Thanks go to Dan Hollis for reminding me of this.

-- 
Brian Litzinger <brian@worldcontrol.com>

    Copyright (c) 2000 By Brian Litzinger, All Rights Reserved
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