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Subject: Re: My conversation with Hsu.......

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:01:15 02/25/02

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On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote:

>I was recently in contact with Hsu, where I asked him if there was anyway that
>he would either a.) sell the technology in DB or b.) donate this information to
>someone (Hyatt comes to mind) who would put it to use and keep it safe from
>being commercial use.
>
>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused).
>And to keep IBM off his back, if he decided to make a Shogi engine.  Period.  No
>other reasons.  He will never sell/commercialize/donate/share his information.
>Ever.
>
>What a terrible, terrible dissappointment.

The chip is patented.  At some point, the patent will expire.



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