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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Sourcecode: Poison!
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Date: 27 Feb 90 04:05:23 GMT
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In comp.dcom.telecom you write:

>When 'the authorities' come a-calling, with warrant in hand, and their
>credentials in order, they start looking for Mother's source code; 3b2
>stuff and the like, and they keep looking until they find it.

I've always said that possession (use, sale, distribution) of AT&T
software should be a crime.  Now it appears that someone agrees with
me, but it's a bit of a surprise that it's AT&T itself.  Hmmm, maybe
AT&T knows something we don't?

Well, here's to liberating Mach, and the fine work from the FSF.  The
time is coming when the arriving AT&T folks will be laughed at, and
invited to look for stolen copies of the periodic table too.  You
know, the one that's trademark AT&T, copyright Apple, patent IBM?

AT&T certainly has a right to protect its interests.  But the passion
it's showing in defense of its rights to yesterday's software would be
better directed toward developing the software that will sell
tomorrow.  Of course, given the ratio of programmers to lawyers in the
boardroom, I realize that this will be hard to explain to management.


Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
The Philip Morris Companies, Inc: without question the strongest
and best argument for an anti-flag-waving amendment.