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From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,news.groups
Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
Message-ID: <1992Sep5.034655.14637@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:46:55 GMT
References: <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> <1992Sep1.130800.14354@news.acns.nwu.edu> 
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peter@taronga.com (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.

Outside the US, as well? (Those countries exist, you know :-)
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.