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From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: exclusive-ORed cursors
Message-ID: <2750@watvlsi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 16:55:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 16:55:21 1985
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Reply-To: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Organization: VLSI Group, U of Waterloo
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 .. re the patent holder charging money for use of his idea ..
>What a neat way to make money.  If he makes
>$100 on 100 companies, he has just earned $10,000 for nothing. 

I think '$10,000 for nothing' is an unfair assessment of the
situation.  As with most great ideas, once someone shows you how to
do something it becomes obvious (also spoken: 'Once someone opens the door
everyone can see through it').  Just because a process is obvious and
in widespread use this does not lessen an inventor's credit for it.
-- 
Kevin Szabo' watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo (U of W VLSI Group, Waterloo, Ont, Canada)