From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:41:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Patents and Trademarks invalid
Message-ID: <9602170607.AA15430@cti02.citenet.net>
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>Here's an idea: whenever someone uploads something like the RC2 source code,
>why not have everyone attach it to their .signature?  Is criminal justice
>seriously going to pursue tracking down millions of people that did this?
>Or would they pull the plug.

Man's survival tool is his mind.

Patents and copyright are establishing the ownership and protection
the result of the exercise of his survival tool.

Therefore they are good.

To try to eliminate them is equivalent to promote slavery.

JFA
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