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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: yacc stack overflow
Message-ID: <126093@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 20 Mar 91 21:14:29 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.005444.27907@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>As quoted from <125497@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
>+---------------
>| Of course. I'm surprised that someone who's been around as long as you
>| have would even ask. It's done all the time.
>+---------------
>
>"Done all the time" != "okay to do".  Look at how long the yacc and lex
>sources were on the DECUS tapes....

Actually "done repeatedly in broad daylight" =~ "okay to do", at least
in the civil world. It can be argued, and has been successfully, that
failure to exercise one's rights is tantamount to releasing them.

I know nothing of the DECUS case.

>And AT&T is being extraordinarily obtuse of late.  (Cf. the nonsense about the
>"backing store" patent.)

There is no money in hassling people who already have paid for source
from posting diffs which can only be used by other people who have
also paid for source. Whether the "trade secret" has been compromised
in this situation is legally nebulous. Too delicate to risk an
adverse legal decision on. 

They could actually make money from the backing store thing.
Let us pray that they won't.

However, there is no reason to confuse the two issues.

>++Brandon
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