In message <20101212110630.e4f6211b...@karen.lavabit.com>, "Charles P. Steinmet z" writes: >I wrote: > >>>Intellectual property rights do not just evaporate or return to the >>>public domain when a company disappears -- SOMEONE owns them > >Poul replied: > >>Actually, they do evaporate if nobody defends them. > >But a rights holder almost never loses all rights, [...]
...provided they can prove that they own them in the first place. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.