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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Software patents
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.010701.14116@alphalpha.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 01:07:01 GMT
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In article <9102272125.AA09794@shasta.tivoli.com> kk@shasta.tivoli.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) writes:
>
>   > It costs over half a million dollars to fight a lawsuit against a
>   > patent, and not all patents can be overturned in this way.
>
>So why fight? Pay the royalty or negotiate a patent swap. This is SOP for
>patents; sw is no different.
It gets kind of expensive to pay royalties when you're giving away the
software for free - as both the X Consortium and GNU do.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.