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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit
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Date: 20 May 91 17:20:12 GMT
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In article <1991May20.032227.20127@midway.uchicago.edu> geyer@galton.uchicago.edu writes:
>I see no reason whatsoever to fear that RSA would have been kept as a
>trade secret if software patents had not been invented by the courts.
>R, S, and A are academics.  They have to publish or perish, not so?
>The patents are held by their universities, which are mainly in the
>business of free intellectual inquiry the last time I checked.  This

The RSA patent is held by a private company.  Last time we checked
they were licensing permission to use it for about $20K + royalties.

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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.