Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> A Patent Lie
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> | Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
> | senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
> | patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
> | and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
> | standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
> | patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
> | our profits as they want."
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That large company is Microsoft and it is doing exactly as one of its
founders foretold.
Ian
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