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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copyrighting empty files (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)
Message-ID: <11872@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 02:58:09 GMT
References: <1708@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <pokey@well.com>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) wrote:
}In article <10321@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
}>In article <8335@june.cs.washington.edu> ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
}>>It's about time that someone pointed out that the System V "true" program
}>>is not the empty file.
}>It was before AT&T went around adding bogus Copyright notices to everything.
}Yes, but then there wasn't a copyright notice in it.

Look guys, it doesn't have to make sense.  It's the LAW.
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Jef

   Jef Poskanzer   {ucbvax, lll-crg, sun!pacbell, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
              "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."