Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] LAT

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From: Florian Lohoff <flo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:03:34 +0200
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:14:20PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> 
> Let's be careful out there.
> 

After all - Whom to sue ? This is open source - It all materialized
somehow in the CVS - Nobody really knows where it came from and why it
went out to the world - And hey - Move to non patent polluted countries :)

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I wont worry that much - As long as you dont make money out of
the direct use of Patented protocols nobody will sue you - And if - For what ?

Its like the Atomic Bomb or .mp3 - Once invented - unstoppable 

Flo
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Florian Lohoff		flo@xxxxxxxxxx		      	+49-subject-2-change
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