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1995-08-15 - Re: An article for Wired magazine

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: hallam@w3.org
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Raw Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 08:02:12 PDT

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 08:02:12 PDT
To: hallam@w3.org
Subject: Re: An article for Wired magazine
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P Hallam wrote:

| The major problem with DigiCash is the patent portfollio. I don't
| much like the idea of David Chaum replacing the government as the
| controller of the money supply. Sorry, I just don't.

	Remember that the patents only last 17 years.  (A few more,
since some of the major ones are staggered, but not a long time.
Governments tend to last longer than that.)



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