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- From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.111753.38592@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:17:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.012658.11627@u.washington.edu>, tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >
- > So why did Apple pay off the guy who claimed Hypercard infringed his
- > patent rather than just litigate his tiny company out of existence?
-
- Pay off ??? You're either kidding or you don't follow the discussion
- on software patents.
-
- Read the article of this guy in the CACM (`Debunking the Myth of
- Software Patents'), where he tells you in his introduction about the
- behaviour of Apple.
- Btw, the most funny thing in this article is that this guy was
- _not_ able to enforce his patent, that he is now to shy to suit
- (obviously because he fears the `quality' of Apple's lawyers), and
- that he still defends software patents. Oh yes, of course you might
- like this article: He rails about RMS being a marxistic fool.
- As my grandmother used to say: There are folks who'll learn never...
-
- --
- Joachim
-