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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Why perl can't ship as HP/Apollo base software
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.045350.5519@alphalpha.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 04:53:50 GMT
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In article <9330003@hpfcso.HP.COM> mike@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike McNelly) writes:
>Sorry, Mike, but large corporations have to deal with real legal
>opinions, not yours or mine.  If the lawyers say that's the way it is,
>that's the way it is (for us).

*** Flame On ***
And in one sentence you have summed up the difference between HP and Apollo.
If that's the "HP Way", I pray that Apollo never becomes subsumed by it.
Sorry, but I have no patience for lemmings.
*** Flame Off ***

A corporate lawyer's job is to protect their company.  Unfortunately most
of them take the easy way out and just say "no" rather than actually research
the problem.  I might point out that both Apple and NeXT ship GNU products, and
NeXT at least, uses them in the production of the system.  There is no legal
reason not to do this.  Question "authority".


						-kee

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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.