🚀 go-pugleaf

This might seem unrelated to your request for help,
but it is related.

I've learned that Intergraph is claiming to have copyright
on all the interfaces and even the file formats used
in their operating system.  This is a uniquely nasty behavior
for any computer company.

Assuming that you're asking for help so you can do your
work for Intergraph, it seems that the community is being abused:
Intergraph is (thru you) asking us for cooperation with one hand
while the other hand is readying the knife.  It seems that poeple
should think twice about how to respond.

I suggest you think about Intergraph's policy, and raise it as
an ethical issue with your fellow employees.

The management will quite likely tell you to shut up and leave ethical
questions to them (so they can file them in the bit bucket and do
whatever seems profitable); if they do, you will need to refuse,
pointing out that considering the ethics of a collective activity such
as a business is the responsibility of everyone participating in it.

You (and other readers) can get more information about this kind of
issue by contacting lpf@uunet.uu.net or ftp'ing information from
ftp.uu.net (sorry, I don't remember the directory, but it's
named lpf and is just one or two levels down the tree).