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Subject: Re: Europe's attempt to copyright interfaces is insane
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Date: 12 Apr 90 06:15:22 GMT
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     brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

     "For thousands of years ideas have been free."

That may be so, but for hundreds of years inventions have been
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