Bypassing the Digicash Patents

[Bill Frantz]

At 3:02 PM -0700 5/4/97, Tim May wrote:
>(And such cash systems are almost certainly cheaper for merchants for other
>types of transactions. Getting the money immediately has to be at least as
>cheap as having checks, credit cards, tabs, etc. Obviously.)

An exception may be for businesses like all-night gas stations, where
robbery is a significant cost of doing business.


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