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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Date: 20 Mar 91 19:30:47 GMT
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   X-Name: Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR

   And AT&T is being extraordinarily obtuse of late.  (Cf. the
   nonsense about the "backing store" patent.)

That's hardly obtuse -- it's just that AT&T has discovered that
there's money to be made in software.  Perhaps "backing store" is not
patentable -- and perhaps it is.  The cost of sending out a few
threatening letters is far less than the profits to be made if the
patent is upheld.

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
--
A friend told me about how the software project he was working on got
canceled: "The business was estimated at $100 million within 4 years,
but this being an American company, that wasn't good enough -- a year
is as far as time goes."