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(OT) Re: [fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]



Ken Arromdee said on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:20:27PM -0800,:

 > > > > by which you could create it. I find it highly unlikely that patent
 > > > > lawyers cost appreciably more than software developers)

(snip) 
 
 > But that's not cheap.  Going to law school costs a lot of money.  Becoming a
 > software developer only requires buying a computer, which costs a lot less.

There is at least one case of somebody from IBM going on to be a
patent attorney. See:-
 
http://www.fenwick.com/attorneys/4.2.2.asp?aid=435

Googling consequent  to the discovery  that the link mentioned  in the
Halloween IX  docs on SCO revealed  the above link.  (see the comments
about para  111, the part about  IBM not releasing code  without an IP
audit.)

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