Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Alex Butcher (alex@cocoa.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:23:08 +0000 (GMT)

On 21 Dec 1998, Michael Shields wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981220164425.2059B-100000@cocoa.demon.co.uk>,
> "Alex Butcher(linkern)" <linkern@cocoa.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Patents in the computing industry should have much shorter
> > lives and should should not become 75-year (or whatever) cash cows for large
> > multinationals.
>
> 17.

Still too long for a field like computing, IMHO. Most stuff is obsolete
within 3 years these days.

> --
> Shields.

Alex.

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