Chen Xiao Fan 05:13 2004-12-08:
>Thanks Spehro for sharing that history 200 years ago. :) I think
>Asia needs another 60 years to catch up. :)

Seem to be the same all over the world, also much from USA.
Partly becayse the lame US patent Office that do not do their job, partly because large companies and bad laws make fighting using money instead of development works there, partly because US government support the whole shit..
I designed a security system, whoose principle i discovered already more than 20 yers ago, yet i found three US patens identical to that, made around 1999!   They will fall if in cuort.  Poor enginer paying US patent office, then get lies back from them.

steve@tla.co.nz 10:26 2004-12-08:
>So why are the MDT parts called clones, fakes and pirates while the 
>binary compatible, directly interchangeable Scenix parts were an 
>example of American ingenuity ?

Because the one speaking was USamerican.

/Morgan
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Morgan Olsson, Kivik, Sweden

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