Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU... Message-ID: <1696@iesd.dk> Date: 10 Apr 89 21:57:14 GMT References: <28354@apple.Apple.COM> <8158@polya.Stanford.EDU> <22643@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <23295@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <292@odi.UUCP> <28723@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: fischer@iesd.dk Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 15 In-reply-to: desnoyer@Apple.COM's message of 10 Apr 89 20:25:50 GMT In article <28723@apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes: >.... and there is >precedent that a "computer language", whatever that is, is not >copyrightable. Is AT trying to sue the pants off anyone that uses he dBaseI+ language(s)? I beleive that the hold that the dBase languages are "proprietary". /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke