Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Software patents

Author:	Lindon Parker
Posted:	5/19/1999; 5:54:40 PM
Topic:	Software patents
Msg #:	6494 (In response to 6482)
Prev/Next:	6493 / 6495

In fact developers - the real people after all :-) are often forced into a patenting process by their venture capitalists. I know at least it's happened to us.

Still, a while back I raised the model here of selling patents as a way to generate capital, and a kind soul (I'm sorry I forgot who) pointed me to:

http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.html

This fixed my thinking straight away.

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