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   Re: [xml-dev] Patents

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At 3:29 PM -0700 4/18/02, Ronald Bourret wrote:
>I'm not sure that teaching your kid to patent how to play is a valuable
>lesson. A valuable lesson would have been teaching the kid to share his
>invention with all the other kids in the playground. Maybe Corporate
>America could learn that lesson, too.
>

I think the lesson here was just showing the kid what Daddy does at 
the office. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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