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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: another dumb posting about licensing...
Message-ID: <483@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 16:06:12 EST
Article-I.D.: gouldsd.483
Posted: Wed Mar 25 16:06:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 04:43:20 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Landover MD.
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Keywords: uucp AT&T etc, etc, etc....


	Ok, a lot of people who were flaming me about uucp pointed out
that all the UNIX source is licensed as a trade secret. This is
obviously a crock of shit, since Lyons published the version 6 
kernel as a textbook. So much for a trade secret. So much for 'cat'
which is stubbed out in Kernighan & Ritchie, so much for 'dc' and
a host of others. Anything that is printed in a TEXTBOOK is going to
be plenty public, children. (for those of us who can read)

	Not that you want to know what I think, I'll tell you anyway:
I think everyone's afraid of the slimeball lawyers and pissants
who are really just an impediment to progress. I think NOBODY really
knows the status of ~50% of the UNIX code but everyone is afraid to
open their mouths. So much for the former pioneering spirit. That's
what happens to something fun like UNIX when the hobbyists and students
get bumped out by the degree-grubbers, yes-men and lawyer-kissers.
Amazing that anyone manages to make any progress these days.

	I mean, gee, aren't you guys all scared silly that the
descendants of Alan Turing are going to sue all the software developers
of the world because HE came up with the idea of programs ? Get real.

--mjr();
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