Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <5351@ficc.uu.net> Date: 29 Jul 89 02:08:10 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26719@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 In article <26719@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: > Can someone explain to me how it is software vendors can assert control > over what is done with a product once it is sold? (I mean the > ~reasoning~ behind the law, not the law itself.) [ car == software analogy deleted ] You know the answer already, I'm sure. But... you can not give a car away and still keep it. The same is not true of software (or books, tapes, etc). Analogy thus falls apart. Tell me... how do you feel about other intellectual property laws? Copyrights on music, books, movies, etc...? -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "...helping make the world Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | a quote-free zone..." Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | -- hjm@cernvax.cern.ch