Re: Expired patents

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Fri, 20 June 2014 13:33 UTC

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On 6/20/2014 12:07 AM, Stephan Wenger wrote:
> That¹s a bad example.


On the other hand, it nicely demonstrates the challenge of our making
casual assertions (or decisions based on them) about this topic.  Not
that we didn't already know that...

d/
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Dave Crocker
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