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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: The (c) on UNIX?
Message-ID: <991@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 12:12:12 EST
Article-I.D.: vax2.991
Posted: Wed Apr  4 12:12:12 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 05:38:08 EST
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA
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How can AT&T put a clause in their contract making it illegal to disseminate
any knowledge gained from looking in the sources?  You may be pretty scared
of legal action until you consider the following item:  UNIX[1], with sources,
is available to universities all over the country.  Students frequently
study UNIX sources in classes.  Students never sign contracts agreeing not
to use any knowledge gained in a product.  It would mean nobody could write
an operating system who had taken an operating systems class.  Silly.

Now, how could AT&T know if you had learned about sources at a univwersity
as opposed to learning about them at work?  Still, I wouldn't go copying
sources wildly.  At least I don't live in mortal fear of disclosing
something[2].

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    [1] UNIX is a trademark of something that used to be Bell Labs, (AT&T?)
    [2] I don't have access to UNIX sources anyway
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Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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