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Mike Coughlin writes:

   	... The source to a computer program 
   cannot be placed in the public domain for the benefit of humanity.

Sure it can be, has been for decades, thanks to American taxpayers and
their laws, and hopefully it will continue.  As an aside, it is worth
noting that majority of humanity's throughput is in the public domain,
and the collection just increases every passing year. 

							... Anyone
   may take the source, change it and then copyright it in his own name
   for his own benefit.


Yes, indeed. In fact, within the next month or two, I will publish a
public domain scheme interpreter, with exactly and *especially* that
advice: everybody should take it, hack it, improve it, copyright it,
hoard it, claim their own, avoid all acknowledgements to me and another
commercial company which has contributed considerable development time,
and use it, sell it, or do whatever their freedoms with public domain
material allows them to do. If it is useful, if it solves their problems,
saves development time and further helps Scheme replace other "common"
languages, then I have ccomplished my goals. The original and its
further releases [with whatever contributions] will forever remain
in the public domain [yep, I can deal with any possible silliness,
legal or otherwise] no matter what.

... oz
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