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To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Patented XML Compression Techniques (WAS RE: [xml-d ev] Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?)
From: "Bob Foster" <bob@objfac.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 -0500
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC755@hq1.pcmail.ingr.com> <20030806220127.GA1805@skunk.reutershealth.com>

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> The trouble is that (especially with patents) there may be submarines
> which neither RFP creator nor proposer is aware of.  Your only defense
> against this is general anti-patent insurance.

The only forms of anti-patent insurance I am aware of are:

- No assets to speak of
- Mutually assured destruction

Are there others?

Bob Foster

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