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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7155 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:49:02 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11700 comp.unix.bsd:10133 comp.unix.wizards:28258 comp.org.usenix:3119 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <1993Jan19.021736.17580@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: 19 Jan 93 02:17:36 GMT References: <BZS.93Jan14203519@world.std.com> <1343@eplunix.UUCP> Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines Lines: 20 In article <1343@eplunix.UUCP>, das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens) writes: > We programmers have no one to blame for this but ourselves. ["this" refers to the USL attempt everyone here knows about by now] > For years we have been screaming for more and better laws and > enforcement of licensing, copyright, patents, etc. Everyone and her > sister wants "intellectual property" protection (an oxymoron if ever > there was one). I don't know who you mean by "we" here, but it sure doesn't include me, and, I'm sure, lots of others. Careful with your generalizations. Personally, I think the intellectual property laws in the US (and probably most other places) are too strong already. der Mouse mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu