Companies and Patents

John Tapsell tapsej0 at cs.man.ac.uk
Sun May 12 18:16:40 UTC 2002


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On Sunday 12 May 2002 3:29 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which division did you join?
>
> I guess it depends on your job there.

IBM Hursley - a research division - they do the MQ series there ( A very 
expensive jabber clone heh)

Actually I turned down the job - they wanted me to do security auditing for 
£11k a year - sigh.  So they hired my girlfriend instead heh :)

What are people's general thoughts on hardware/research/etc patents?

Correct me If I'm wrong, but it seems a lot of people feel they are good in 
general, but they last too long.

Thoughts?


JohnFlux
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