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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!godot!dj From: dj@godot.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property" Message-ID: <Bsyr4L.EqM@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 14 Aug 92 07:50:44 GMT References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com> Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: dj@godot.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: godot In article 18970@telematics.com, ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes: >(ObDisclaimer: I'm no lawyer, and don't even play one :-)) >All of this does seem to argue against academia and others who are >interested in free distribution of research and results from getting >involved with "protected" code, since the "black box" approaches >used in industry for reverse engineering are probably too expensive >and provide too little benefit to be worth while. Hmmm.... Though they could be useful for an academic site setting up a course on reversed engineering and implementing clean room procedures. B) > >ted >-- >Ted Goldblatt ted@telematics.com (305) 351-4367 > Telematics Intl., Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL --- ============================================================================ dj@micromuse.co.uk |"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune Voice +44-71-352-7774 | but this is reality so give some room" Fax +44-71-351-7834 | (Sir) William Bragg ------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Non-standard Disclaimer : "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I wasn't there"