On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 04:29:53AM +1000, Julian Assange wrote:
> 
> In terms of Patents, the idea that unused source is the same as
> applying the patent in an infringable manner is just as silly as
> saying that possession of a patent description to a plastic Jesus
> is the same as the plastic Jesus itself. pas une pipe.

As I believe you're aware, this is exactly the oversimplification of
the situation which my patent attorney suggested a court was highly
unlikely to agree with on _precisely_ this subject.

A.K.A. "well, we didn't want you to *use* that source code, it was just
to look at!"  We could easily lose a case of contributory infringement
that way. 

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"