At 12:35 PM 1/14/97 +0100, Anonymous wrote:

Patents only apply to commercial use.

Got a cite for this? I can't seem to find any authority for it. It sounds to me like a simple economic calculation (it's not worthwhile to sue noncommercial users for infringement because they usually don't have enough $ to even pay for the litigation, and "IBM sues 70-year old grandmother" makes for poor public relations) that got turned into "law" by the machinery of urban legend. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles@netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |