From: "Geo." 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> Patent life is likely to become longer, not shorter. See the extension of
> copyright as a precedent.

Copyright terms are only longer in the short term. It's not possible to
extend them and keep a functional system. At some point they will have to
be shortened again.

Geo.

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