From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  4 May 2000 09:52:47 +0000
From: Douglas Fraser dwfraser@lucent.com
Subject: [9fans] re: license terms?
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Tom,

That was a bit harsh.

There is a growing trend for research schools to patent their
discoveries, particularly in biotech. I would love to see you
convince some of _those_ lawyers to give away some of _those_ patents,
particularly when they bring millions of dollars into their
endowments. As your own sig says, "The hardest thing to see..."

Doug

Tom Glinos wrote:
>
> >it goes.  Please do not lobby us on the issue; it is beyond our
> >control, in the hands of corporate lawyers.
>
> That's a bit of a cop out. Unless lawyers are running the company, managment
> makes those decisions, lawyers just execute.
>
> --
> =================
> The hardest thing to see                | Tom Glinos @ U of Toronto Statistics
> is the way things REALLY are.           | tg@utstat.toronto.edu