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From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
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Subject: Re: A sad day...
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Date: 11 Mar 91 03:10:33 GMT
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In article <18053@milton.u.washington.edu> roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) writes:
>[I've never flamed a spelling error before, but this is just too much.]
>
>In article <1991Mar8.030208.9017@nntp-server.caltech.edu> woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) writes:
>...
>>Or how about the patient (recently upheld in England) concerning alpha
>                  ^^^^^^^
>...
>>backstore, and other clearly software techniques to be patiented, copyrighted
>                                                        ^^^^^^^    
>>and protected, explicitly outside of the relm of protection that patients,
>                                                                  ^^^^^^^
>...
>>which can be executed by a machine) is NOT patientable.
...
>-- 
>Roger Fulton
>roger@wrq.com


You must learn to be patent.

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