🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2892.267decad@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes:
>In article <7324@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>> 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.
>> ...
>Actually, DEC disallows it in their Standard Terms and Conditions already.
>Before you get any software from them, you agree to abide by the ST&C,
>which prohibits reverse-engineering and dissassembly. Recently a program
>appeared on comp.os.vms that was written by reverse-engineering the
>BOOKREADER data format, and it was later yanked from circulation under
>pressure from DEC (causing QUITE a commotion on comp.os.vms). 

I'm new to this newsgroup, but this posting really left me
chilled.  DEC comes across as a real Great Satan!

This is what computing was supposed to be in _1984_.  Thank god 
for the Free World, defined as the world minus these nazi
sentiments.

But really; are these guys stupid or something?  Apple couldn't
have been anything today without support from a million hackers:
setting up such a public image is commercial suicide to Apple.
Ditto with DEC and IBM.

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Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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