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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit
Message-ID: <1991May17.214226.10776@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 21:42:26 GMT

In this case, I don't think it's reasonable to rag on Hayes.  I have
heard that they license the command set for a very reasonable price.
You can either (a) spend thousands of times as much money on lawyers
in attempt to get something for nothing, or (b) pay Hayes some respect
for establishing a useful standard, and license the command set.

It's sort of like this guy who has the patent on the microprocessor.
Sure, it scares everyone to death, but what if he's willing to license
it for $.00001 per microprocessor?  Wouldn't it be worth it for the
industry to pay him the $100,000 or so he has coming in order to
settle the issue?  It's cheaper than hiring one corporate lawyer for a
year, and it settles the issue once and for all.

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
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