- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@net.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:59:59 +0000
- To: www-talk@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dudley Mills writes: | The "big question", as I see it, is what is in the public's best | interest. And the Big Answer is that software patents (of which this is essentially an extension) *aren't*. It would be nice to think, given the global nature of the Internet, that most of us can ignore these patently ludicrous ideas. Unfortunately, like the US crypto export laws, they have a pernicious influence on the development of computing in general - and the Internet in particular. So, please take your patent application and file it in the circular filing cabinet, garbage compactor, bit bucket, /dev/null, ... ;-) Ciao! Martin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNPQHu9ZdpXZXTSjhAQFWSwP9GkZFhduYYKLsntyOHZo/v2dE3fyRXllC 4w/p065qur6L/0Hq3wgl69fQPWbQHXrIWpnBXJbvxCpTMYTrrQfVvWem2Mrxl3xl Q30Sg1VK9clHs3ePsL+vMviMl5sHdY9saV7BTxOjwqLaz0R+MQSA3stEy6YNfqH5 9PM8D2GMv0Y= =s8AM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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