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Posted by: Ignacio Carrera (Thursday 9 June 2005, 8:46 PM)

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What do people need to understand that, simply put, communications protocols MUST NEVER BE able to become trade secrets, much MUCH less be covered by any sorta patents (which shouldn't even exist in the first place)?
I'm not European, but after EU, the rest of the world will "fall" to Microsoft or whatever bigcorp (you name it), to put it in SciFi-like terms.

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