[107369] in Cypherpunks
Re: of interest?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Jan 12 22:07:47 1999
In-Reply-To: <199901130247.WAA02761@systemics.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:54:50 -0500
To: iang@systemics.com, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
dbs@philodox.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, e$@vmeng.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 9:47 PM -0500 on 1/12/99, Ian Grigg wrote:
> > Join Professors Franco Modigliani, Andrew Lo, Jeff Meldman, financial
> > practitioner Francis Vitagliano, and patent attorney James Bollinger for an
> > exciting exploration of Wall Street's hottest new phenomenon--Financial
> > Patents! The four sessions in this series will feature:
>
> Wot, you mean their proud of this?
Well, of course! :-).
Say you're Myron Scholes or Fisher Black (of the Black-Scholes option
pricing model) or Modigliani (or even Miller ;-)). Which would *you* rather
have, a chance at a Nobel, with a measly $1 million (actually half, in both
cases), or guaranteed income from a software patent?
Hell, the way it now works, you can get both!
First thing we do...
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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