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On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com> wrote:
> Even if the Bitcoin Foundation decided to recklessly disregard Bitcoin's
> future centralization, I'm not sure going to them and asking them to pay
> a license fee in order to keep from holding the rest of the Bitcoin
> mining community hostage counts as "regard for centralization pressure".
> It also doesn't excuse the lack of transparent licensing being available
> today, or the lack of transparency when discussing it in public after
> the patent had been filed.
We can't change the past (besides, would you want BCF to have owned
that patent? I didn't)-- only the future.
To do so requires collaboration, so lets focus on that.
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