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From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
Date: 18 Jan 1993 01:34:11 GMT
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In article <1993Jan17.020030.11728@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner) writes:
>	How any engineer or scientist could be in favor of a system that
>	means that *someone else* could own the contents of their brain
>	is beyond me.

Obviously, since that's almost entirely what "intellectual
property" does NOT mean.

				--Blair
				  "Voooom!"