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From: gast@ucla-cs.ARPA (David Gast)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.legal
Subject: Re: lex and yacc in the public domain (responses)
Message-ID: <12359@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 3-May-86 02:58:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 02:58:24 1986
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References: <481@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <518@looking.UUCP> <864@watdragon.UUCP> <523@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: gast@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Gast)
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In article <523@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>But to suggest that a person's thoughts are
>common property is both repugnant and ludicrous, to be honest.   "Repugnant"
>is, of course, a value judgement on my part, but ludicrous stems from the
>fact that nothing short of torture can take ideas from a person who does
>not wish to give them.  This is a property right in the most fundamental
>sense.

Sorry,repungnant moosebreath, but you are wrong.  You cannot copyright ideas. 
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David Gast