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From: phil@pex.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
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In article <1343@eplunix.UUCP> das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens) writes:
>We programmers have no one to blame for this but ourselves.

Or each other......

>For years we have been screaming for more and better laws and enforcement
>of licensing, copyright, patents, etc.  Everyone and her sister wants
>"intellectual property" protection (an oxymoron if ever there was one).

I haven't been doing any yelling.  Haven't heard much either.
I must be going deaf........    1/2 :-)

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>