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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Once again, PK VERSUS SEA
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Date: 21 Jun 88 21:19:00 GMT
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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
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