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From: matt@gargoyle.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: "Gosling-free" emacs and unipress
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 21:20:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 21:20:55 1985
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In article <> dalamb@qucis.UUCP (David Lamb) writes:
>If a piece of software is protected by "trade secret," then you could
>be sued if you looked at the code, then wrote your own version.  

("I never thought I'd get involved in this discussion"  -- another
  other different USENET motto.)

If a software is protected as a trade secret then nobody should
have ever shown it to you or let you access it unless you first
signed an agreement not to reveal the secret.  If you see the code
and you haven't signed such an agreement then you can blab and
cause trouble for your company or university because THEY have
broken THEIR promise not to reveal it.  IF the owner of the code
can establish that they took reasonable measures to preserve the
secrecy, they can win a suit against YOU and those to whom you
have revealed the secrets.

[I-am-not-a-lawyer-beep.--But-I-read-a-lot-beep.--This-is-a-recording.]

				Matt Crawford