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No they can't patent your child until they get their first swab...
Weird story in the guardian this weekend about a new growth
business--use of dead people in advertising. It's a great money maker...
apparently Corbis (Bill Gates' picture library) is making acquisitions
there. Stars as avatars-.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lyon [mailto:david.lyon@computergrid.net]
Sent: 08 April 2005 03:46
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Open source request....
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:05 am, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> 2) For me, it was about using OpenSource and giving back, about
sharing
> knowledge freely, about doing something against software patents.
We now live in an age where we are all walking violations of large drug
companies that now "own" the license on parts of our dna, of life
itself.
It's a crazy system... my wife just had a baby.. yesterday in fact...
oops we
just violated somebodies patent.... oh darn...
> This is a philosophical point of view that not everybody shares.
It's a mixed up world alright...
No use worrying about things like this..
David
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Computergrid : The ones with the most connections win.
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