Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!clio!berger From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Once again, PK VERSUS SEA Message-ID: <16800307@clio> Date: 21 Jun 88 21:19:00 GMT References: <5199@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU:5199:clio:16800307:000:653 Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger Jun 21 16:19:00 1988 What's your point? Should it be impossible for Sony to patent the Beta VCR because other VCR's record video and use tape? If a Ford is iden- tical to all other cars, why do people spend so much on Ferraris? It's always easy to improve on somebody elses' idea. You have to protect your interests, else you lose the rights to your creation. Ask Kleenex and Xerox how they feel when people refer to their competitors' products with names they coined for their own. Mike Berger Department of Statistics Science, Technology, and Society University of Illinois berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu {ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger