1993-06-13 - Re: PKP

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
To: Doug Porter <dporter@well.sf.ca.us>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-06-13 17:06:12 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 10:06:12 PDT

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 10:06:12 PDT
To: Doug Porter <dporter@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: Re: PKP
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> Ok, PKP now effectively has a monopoly. Is an antitrust action 
> appropriate?

no.  establishing and securing a monopoly is the whole point of patent law.

personally, i plan to continue to infringe on the pkp patents -- protected
by the research use exclusion and the rsaref noncommerical-use license -- 
while the onslaught of time makes pkp assets ever less viable.  

fuck 'em.  join me.

	peter





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