[107384] in Cypherpunks
RE: of interest?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown, R Ken)
Wed Jan 13 06:20:57 1999
From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
"'Robert Hettinga'"
<rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:09:23 -0600
Reply-To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
> Robert Hettinga[SMTP:rah@shipwright.com] posted:
>
> > 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!
>
As there is approx 0.0 chance of any jurisdiction not under imminent threat
of invasion by the US accepting this notion (which, if true, is a major
attempt to restrict freedom) maybe we will have a strange kind of
marketplace in the future where every market has 1 US player (the owner of
the patent) and multiple non-US players (everyone who fancies a go and has
enough money to join the game). You guys already lost the dollar foreign
exchange market to London 20 or 30 years years ago. I wonder which will go
next? (& where...)
Even if only applied to domestic or retail markets it is a nonsense. How
much would hamburgers cost if you could only buy them from McDonalds with
the Patent Sesame Bun? Silly question of course - if that was the case
no-one would have ever heard of burgers.
Ken Brown
