On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:27:22PM +0000, David Murphy mentioned:
> > It's something like nuclear disarmamanet - it's better to take the
> > weapons away (reform the patent office) than to have individual
> > countires (companies) sign nonagression pacts.
>> Though, in an ideal world, you would nuke the people with the weapons,
> while they aren't looking.
Following on the analogy, we *could* try to patent the idea of patenting
dumb ideas. Then take Amazon to court :)
> Kate
Dave.
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