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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4907)	2/1/1998 10:12:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 74651

Bingo! But let's not limit it to BG! I have a friend that worked on speech recognition 12 years ago. He went to the 'investors' of the time and was informed that they were not interested unless a substantial profit could be made within three years! Every company that I worked for during my career required that any patentable idea was 'theirs' and basically not 'mine'. So while it is popular to 'villify' BG, I must admit that he certainly isn't the first, and 'big business' has always done it for all of the time that I have been involved, and the companies that I have personally worked for include the following: IBM, Automatic Electric, North Electric, Northern Telecom, GTE. All of these 'boys' required documents that 'they' got the patents. One of the rubs that I ran into was at one of the companies, there was a person that had 54 patents! Pretty impressive until you find that actually they invented NOTHING but was the manager while another actually did the work! But they get to 'list' their patents when they speak publicly, and that lends credibility to their talk, "After all, they hold 54 patents! They must know something!" - Poppycock! Not withstanding some of the 'less than honorable' ways products are 'invented', I certainly have benefited as I sit in front of the type of computing 'power' and superior 'application' programs that are available to me! Thoughts? Ken