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To: LLCF who wrote (32083)	4/22/2003 6:08:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Oh, Intellectual property. The more people that uses your product, the more value it has. Once everyone knows to use it, you own the industry. MSFT is there to prove it. If the US would patented and defended it with nail and claw, TCP and the other IP (Internet Protocol) the overall economic benefit for the US industry as a whole couldn't have been achieved. In fact we wouldn't have had the tech bubble. Once one country, like Brazil, breaks out the mold, changes the paradigm, things change. For the better? I don't know. But it changed. Imagine if Apple Computer have had won the case against MSFT about the 'look and feel' of the Mac operating system when they devised the first Windows. We, either, be here today buying USD5.000 PC or typing commands. But we are paying dirty cheap PCs and make them available for a lot more people than the guys who could master command-based PC. Those changes of direction that challenges the established concepts are good and welcome for the overall Imagine if the Forefathers had not challenged the paradigm, told the British to f off and declared independence?