• From: Dave Winer <dave@u...>
• To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:16:29 -0700

Information Superhighway Robbery.

> I do personally know of one small company (name withheld to protect the
> guilty) with a couple of patents that they have licensed successfully.
The
> patents in question were, however, of the "patent a semi-obvious idea
before
> anyone else does and sic the lawyers on the poor suckers who re-invent
that
> diameter of wheel" variety, not a stirring advertisement for Intellectual
> Property Rights in a Free Economy.

• References:
  • RE: Cutting special deals for open source developers -- noway!
    • From: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>

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