Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: public domain? Message-ID: <196@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:44:56 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.196 Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:44:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 06:20:49 EST Sender: jrb@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-678000:wdl1:17100048:000:475 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Dec 27 17:18:00 1984 You can reach a long way with the right licensing agreement. Howard Hughes, Sr (the father of the one who died recently) came up with the ultimate to date in this direction; he acquired the rights to the only really good drill bit for drilling oil wells, and leased out drill bits refusing to sell them outright. The lease called for a charge dependent on the production of the oil well, and it was a non-trivial percentage. Hughes Tool was built on that basis.