Re: Free vs. non-free information

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 1990 04:48

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In Reply to this Note From: <Dave Brennan>
>
>In article <13025@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
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>   You may of course choose to immediately forget everything you read in
>   that book, because the information (at least some peculiar manifestation
>   of that information) contained therein is not free.  Of course, some of
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Copyright law applies to verbatim or quasi-verbatim copies.  It
explicitly does *NOT* apply to concepts.  To control a concept you must
have a patent.  I am not a lawyer, and probably am wrong.  :-)  -David-

david%wubios@wugate.wustl.edu           ^      David J. Camp
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