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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6097 comp.org.eff.talk:8899 comp.unix.bsd:4465 comp.os.mach:2035 misc.int-property:471 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) In-Reply-To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-ID: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> <1992Sep1.130800.14354@news.acns.nwu.edu> <MJB.92Sep1163324@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:01:41 GMT Lines: 22 In article <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com>, peter@taronga (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <MJB.92Sep1163324@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> mjb@doc.ic.ac.uk (Matthew J Brown) writes: >>IMHO this issue is only of much importance to computing professionals. > >IMHO it's not. AT&T is effectively expanding intellectual property protection >in general. I personally believe that if they had made *some* of these claims >about 3 years ago, when Berkeley started large-scale source code releases, >they would have been justified. Other of their claims imply that if one has >had access to "protected" materials one can never work in that particular >industry again. Those claims are of interest to everyone. > >I disagree with broadcast posting this sort of call to every group on other >grounds, but to claim that only computing professionals have an interest in >intellectual property laws is ridiculous. Well, why not discuss the issue in misc.int-property, then? (for the readers of mits.int-property - material on the lawsuit is available for anonymous ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu pub/lpf/att-bsdi, or the gopher server otax.tky.hut.fi Topics/LPF). //Jyrki