Posted Jun 21, 2012 2:56 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
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Maybe he did. But if he did and then decided to keep a secret because he couldn't get a patent for it all it proves is that it's possible to be really smart and really damn stupid at the same time.
Lack of patent protection did impede progress
Posted Jun 21, 2012 13:38 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
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In 1969 I was a student of a professor who received a copy of the private preprint of Ziv's paper.