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From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
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Subject: Re: Patents: What they are. What they aren't. Other factors.
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Date: 2 Nov 92 23:47:27 GMT
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>The benefit of a patent-like mechanism with copyrights disallowed in this case
>is disclosure; it's not always possible to reverse engineer, and trading the
>authors disclosure for a time-limited monopoly is a fair trade.

Please name an example of a piece of software which could not be reverse
engineered in 17 years.

				_MelloN_
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Bruce Herschensohn:
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