On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 15:18, Alan Cox wrote:
An 8 old year US child who re-implements a patented technique in visual basic for
a school class can be sued for it, even if they've never seen or known about it
before.
And hopefully sent to bed without dinner for breaking the backbone of
American commerce. Are there no computer work houses for these 8 year
old brats who willy nilly break patents?
Bah Humbug
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