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From: tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Apple's FCC request
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.123757.24797@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 18:37:57 GMT
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>Let me see if I understand your "reasoning".  Apple thinks that there
>should be radio spectrum allocated for computer networks.  Apple
>is pursuing some lawsuits you don't like.  Therefore, radio networks
>for computers are a bad idea?
>

No, the networks may be a fine idea.....but apple and others who are 
pursuing lawsuits to push for copyrights and patents are cutting off
the programmers hands so to speak.  I would much rather have my hands
than some way to send my data or whatever to a colleague, especially
when I can already do it.
I have few ways, as does any single user, to influence a large comp. 
like apple; but banded together through pressure in any area we can
have effect.

murph

What do you think about software patents?