From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:47:43 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: RSA challenge: is it legal to try?
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970115025002.0074a440@mail.io.com>
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At 12:35 PM 1/14/97 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Patents only apply to commercial use.

Got a cite for this? I can't seem to find any authority for it. It sounds
to me like a simple economic calculation (it's not worthwhile to sue
noncommercial users for infringement because they usually don't have enough
$ to even pay for the litigation, and "IBM sues 70-year old grandmother"
makes for poor public relations) that got turned into "law" by the
machinery of urban legend.


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