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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.legal
Subject: Re: lex and yacc in the public domain (responses)
Message-ID: <2720@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 11:49:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.2720
Posted: Tue May  6 11:49:50 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 6-May-86 12:32:47 EDT
References: <481@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <518@looking.UUCP> <864@watdragon.UUCP> <523@looking.UUCP> <12359@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <12359@ucla-cs.ARPA> gast@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Gast) writes:
>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.

Sure, but you can use them as the basis of a patent, can you not?

( Is this bstempleton of the University of Waterloo ? )

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Greg Smith     University of Toronto      UUCP: ..utzoo!utcsri!greg