Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Keith Moore]

> I think Keith is railing against patent  *profiteering* - the making of
> large sums of money off something that shouldn't have been patentable
> to begin with, due to the "obviousness" or "prior art" requirements.

yes, but my list of things that "shouldn't have been patentable to begin
with" includes a lot more than that!

basically, if you're trying to use your "ownership" of patents in order to 
extort protection money out of people for developing or distributing 
software, I regard this as a form of censorship, an infringement on the
right of free speech, and therefore, an act of violence.

the word "profiteering" is really far too kind.

Keith