Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis
From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Patents...
Keywords: justifications for ripoffs all = greed
Message-ID: <26780b92-21a9.8comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 02:00:44 GMT
References: <21774@snow-white.udel.EDU> <25284@usc.edu>
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|> Bob Heinlen invented
|>the waterbed, the waldo, and a few other goodies in his stories; Arthur C.
|>Clarke invented geosynchronous satellites.
|
|I guess they were not interested in the often grusom, lenghty and COSTLY
|process of applying for a patent.  All the items you mention certainly
|would qualify as "patentable".
|
|-- Marco

	Can't speak for Heinlen, but Clarke would sure have liked to have 
patented geosynchronous satellites. (Not that I'm A. Clarke's spokesperson,
but I've read statements from him to that effect...:-) ).

	But he couldn't.

	Hey, maybe they changed the law while I wasn't looking.  I'll be 
pissed if they did, though.

	People have speculated what type of society would develop after an
information society.  Some said it would be a leisure society.  Not so- we
now have the answer: a LEGAL society.


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