From: APS (protoinfo@advproto.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 22:53:35 EEST
Yes, but General Motors would have coerced OSHA to write Ford up for
having steering wheels that could possibly allow one to turn into harms
way.
Slow day,
Tom Husting
APS
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On
Behalf Of Bathsheba Grossman
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:59 PM
To: Elaine Hunt
Cc: 'RPML'
Subject: RE: a story
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Elaine Hunt wrote:
> At 12:12 PM 5/30/2002 -0700, Bathsheba Grossman wrote
> >On the other hand, voting with your $ won't gain you much if you
> >actually need the technology to do business. As long as the patents
> >hold out, it's not as though one has anywhere else to go.
>
>
> and the department of justice lets them collect technology and milk
> consumers... democracy at its best.
Not that there's anything wrong with the general existence of
intellectual property, but the way it works now is demonstrably a bad
thing for young technologies. If the patent office operated 90 years
ago the way it does now, Ford would have protected the steering-wheel-
and-pedals control system, and every other brand of car would have to
work by totally different mechanisms.
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