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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6135 comp.org.eff.talk:8945 comp.unix.bsd:4605 comp.os.mach:2070 news.groups:49718 misc.int-property:478 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,news.groups,alt.suit.att-bsdi,misc.int-property Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Message-ID: <1992Sep5.100003.23561@nntp.hut.fi> Date: 5 Sep 92 10:00:03 GMT References: <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> <1992Sep1.130800.14354@news.acns.nwu.edu> <MJB.92Sep1163324@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com> <1992Sep5.034655.14637@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi >>IMHO it's not. AT&T is effectively expanding intellectual property protection >>in general. > >Outside the US, as well? (Those countries exist, you know :-) I think it is relatively accurate to say that it is not AT&T but the U.S. government which is expanding intellectual property monopolies outside USA as well. But I also think there's a propagating effect, ie. if AT&T expands the int. property monopolies the U.S. government will pressure othe countries to do the same. (GATT, WIPO) //Jyrki