Re: [tlug] Patents[[sic]] gone wrong?

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:02:57 +0900
From: <stephen@example.com>
Subject: Re: [tlug] Patents[[sic]] gone wrong?
To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@example.com>
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>An interesting thing that you'll discover if you actually read the
links from the EFF 
>site is that many of the alleged abuses were actually simply threats,
abandoned or caved 
>in to long before anybody got close to a court.


Maybe that is more of a threat than the laws themselves.  Precedents
sometimes mean more in courts than actual laws.  If every time things
get near a court date, the defendant turns and runs, then eventually
what the media SAYS the law is, will be the law.