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  1. Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!carson.u.washington.edu!tzs
  3. From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
  4. Subject: Re: November LPF Programming Freedom issue
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.093653.6552@u.washington.edu>
  6. Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
  8. References: <1992Nov15.182219.2730@news.cs.indiana.edu> <FRIEDMAN.92Nov15220042@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:36:53 GMT
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  12. friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
  13. >   If the LPF urged a boycott on every company which had software patents
  14. >or interface copyrights, we would have far less support because it would
  15. >mean boycotting such a substantial fraction of the software industry.
  16.  
  17. Not only would LPF lose support, LPF would need a new place to post
  18. from!  MIT holds software patents, doesn't it?  (More than Apple, I
  19. believe).
  20.  
  21. --Tim Smith
  22.