17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
P Hallam wrote: | The major problem with DigiCash is the patent portfollio. I don't | much like the idea of David Chaum replacing the government as the | controller of the money supply. Sorry, I just don't. Remember that the patents only last 17 years. (A few more, since some of the major ones are staggered, but not a long time. Governments tend to last longer than that.) -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume