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To: deathandtaxes who wrote (49955)	3/30/2001 5:29:19 AM
From: Mariah Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

if this were to uphold the effects are beyond comprehension ... nearly everything from contact closures to complex and simple instruction, take into account 0/1 {: any device that performs any automated task may risk being effected .... {: thanks for the post, this was the first i had heard, i just re-read the article, i am w/o words here ...totally blown away, thinking of the ramifications they are endless ..

To: deathandtaxes who wrote (49955)	3/30/2001 8:21:31 AM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 57584

OT> Very funny story, D&T. Thanks for sharing. The interesting part of it is that I could see someone like Mr. Gates considering such an act. Or AOL patenting email and chat. . . or Verisign's Network Solutions patenting "the whole doggone internet". Of course this would be like Boeing patenting the air foil. . . or to take it to a more absurd extreme, General Motors patenting the wheel. . . Kraft Foods patenting wheat or Georgia Pacific patenting lumber. . . and Sesame Street patenting the alphabet and first 10 numbers . . . except of course the ones and the zeros that would go to Bill "I wanna rule the world" Gates. Thank God for the two little words that make all of this just a weird little fantasy. . . . "public domain". Rande Is