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At 09:01 AM 5/29/00 -0700, Dave Winer wrote: >Rick, speaking as a US citizen and voter, it's unfair to make this a >US-vs-Everyone thing. The patent problem is international. I got to see this >first-hand this January in Davos, there was a lunch session on patents, and >it isn't just the Americans that are filing web business process patents, >and not all the Americans were in favor of the new rules. Dave Speaking as a US citizen and voter, despite my Quebecois name, it's our job to make sure that our government doesn't foist this system on the rest of the world. I actually wouldn't mind it being a US-vs-Everyone thing, as sometimes that's what it takes to demonstrate that we don't always lead the world. (We already have measurement systems to demonstrate that, of course.) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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