RE: Microsoft patent

Phillip Hallam-Baker (hallam@ai.mit.edu)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:35:04 -0400

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> Microsoft patents blinding.
>
> Looks like we get to wait another 20 years...

Microsoft patents an application of blinding.

In any case Microsoft is a business run with the objective
of making money. The problem with Chaum's patents is that he
has always applied entirely unrealistic political demands to
the license of his patents in addition to demanding unreasonable
amounts of money.

        Phill

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