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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] patents...
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:40:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP047f0=9Bt8qEc2MLeOBay4sQXAR9zpL1rKKzSsmk2oaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4d00173-a233-4f55-988a-ad2ba771d457@email.android.com>

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>
> Meh. The world is much bigger than the USA. Secondly that rule makes it
> difficult to educate people about why patents are as bad as they are.
>

You can easily find examples that are not relevant to Bitcoin if you want
to discuss the patent system in general.


> Feel free to continue censoring your own discussion within closed
> corporate environments. But to say keeping patent discussion off mailing
> lists is appropriate or wise when the tech news is full of such discussion
> is silly.


It is both appropriate and wise. Please keep discussion of Bitcoin-relevant
patents elsewhere.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-17 15:31 [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency Jerry Felix
2014-05-17 15:45 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-05-17 16:07 ` Chris Pacia
2014-05-17 16:40   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-18 11:47     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 12:14       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-18 12:51         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 13:06           ` Brooks Boyd
2014-05-19 13:50             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 13:50       ` Natanael
2014-05-18 18:47         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 20:10           ` Natanael
2014-05-19 10:26             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 12:55       ` Sergio Lerner
2014-05-19 13:34         ` Martin Sip
2014-05-19 13:53         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 14:47         ` [Bitcoin-development] patents Adam Back
2014-05-19 15:09           ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:27             ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:40               ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-05-19 18:43             ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-19 18:46               ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:49               ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 22:15             ` Bernd Jendrissek
2014-05-20 10:30           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-18 13:50 ` [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 12:21 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:20   ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 18:39     ` Peter Todd

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