Re: Outlawing code disassembly

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From: David S. Herron
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 1990 01:47

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In article <JIM.90Jun14120824@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
[EEC talking about getting tightening up copyright to disallow
 disassembling code ..]
...
>DEC, IBM and Apple are lobbying for it.
...
>Sounds like a serious battle.  I was somewhat surprised to see DEC's
>name next to IBM's and Apple's.  Does anyone know any details?

Why is it surprising to have DEC in this list.  Ever since DEC
started chasing (er.. making inroads into) IBM's markets DEC started
mouthing the same proprietary stuff that IBM had been doing all
along.  It has been this way for 7-8 years now.

For example .. all the suing that DEC has done in the BI and CI
bus market.  Companies like System Industries and Emulex seem to
be constantly in court over having reverse engineered this or that
hardware interface.

[Note:  This is me talking and not TWG!]

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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
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Subject: Re: Outlawing code disassembly
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Date: 17 Jun 90 01:47:14 GMT
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