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- From: rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning)
- Subject: Re: Public Key Patents
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.011349.11673@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov17.055106.5154@netcom.com> <1ebjbsINNgfv@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <PHR.92Nov19225721@napa.telebit.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:13:49 GMT
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- I believe that Fleming made the patent for penicillin public, which delayed
- development for many years. No drug company wanted to invest the $
- on development and clinical testing when anybody else could ride on
- the investment and undercut their prices. A sure route to bankruptcy.
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- This is a system design issue. You guys are argueing about waves,
- not wave-generation mechanisms.
-
- Lew
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- Lew Glendenning rlglende@netcom.com
- "Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." Nils Bohr (or somebody like that).
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