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From: Ed Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 3:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Happy birthday IBM Research


If memory serves me, they (IBM) try and patent a lot of stuff that 
really has not real technical value. Sounds like a numbers game to me.

Ed

Maybe that is where M$ got its idea to patent everything it could. 
;0


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