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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: The chilling effect of software patents
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Date: 15 Feb 91 20:03:42 GMT
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In article <10957@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
} Possibly Usenix can get into the act.  I have a mailing from them in
} front of me that says the following (as part of a membership survey):
} 
} Software Patents
} 
} The US Patent Office has recently issued patents on some disturbing things --
} like the concept of an include file.

Speaking of which -- does anyone have the patent number for this patent?
I'd like to see for myself what it really says.