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#! rnews 2963 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!news.aimnet.com!netserv.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!news.uky.edu!news From: "Brian L. Naylor" <jones@anakin.transy.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:57:12 -0500 Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <315E1EB8.19F1156C@anakin.transy.edu> References: <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <3158D764.4A7C@vfr.interceptor.com> <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> <4jk1gr$ejq@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4jkctq$1qp@leasion.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp.transy.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4CALDERA (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14174 comp.os.linux.development.system:20715 comp.os.linux.x:28605 comp.os.linux.hardware:35485 comp.os.linux.setup:49089 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:459 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3004 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2764 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16674 Mark Evans wrote: > > Duncan Napier (napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca) wrote: > : In article <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) writes: > : >Thumper! (thumper@vfr.interceptor.com) wrote: > : >: Waldi Ravens wrote: > : >: > > 1) It's illegal. > : >: > > : >: > Boy, have I got news for you. Unlike you believe, USA laws do not aplly > : >: > to the whole universe. They only apply to the USA. But most likely you > : >: > wouldn't even know that other countries exist. > : >: [snip] > : >: > : >: The Bern act effectively says that everything is copyrighted unless expressly > : >: NOT intended for copyright. (Prior laws in the US, for example, required that > : >: copyrights be applied for, and then renewed at intervals). > : > > : >Actually so does the UK 1956 Copyright act. But the definition of what constitues > : >an "original" work differs significently from the US one. > : > : Which raises the question: What is the penalty for an EU citizen who reverse > : engineers a Canadian product (Matrox is based in Dorval, Quebec) and in doing > : so, violates US law? :-) > > How can something entirely outside the US violate US law? I'm pretty sure that was a joke. Notice these characters in his message: ":-)" In this particular sequence, these characters are meant to convey a lighthearted, jovial manner. Note that if you lay your left ear on the desk and look at them, they will begin to resemble a smiley face. :-) -- Brian L. Naylor jones@anakin.transy.edu http://www.transy.edu/~jones