At 07:56 AM 7/13/97 -0500, RPM - acct 3/5 wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chan Wei Lik wrote:

PRICE: $80,000,000 American Dollars for the data on the laser.
      $20,000,000 American Dollars for an actual ice laser unit.

and JUST 20mil for the the device? When they're offering 80mil for the
data. That's a little cheap isn't it? 

the device is nice, but look at it this way:

give a gun to a knight in the medievel ages.
Hey, he'll squeeze off six shots, but after that
it's useless.

Now, explain to him how to make more guns
and the ammunition with it, and it becomes
something else entirely.

kind of an extreme example, but there it is.

Genom is not a knight from medievel times.
Two words:

Reverse Engineering


Jeanne Hedge

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