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Article #75854Re: Not so secret trade secrets (was: gcc problems with Alliant)
From: Joe Weening
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 03:28
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 03:28
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[I've removed gnu.gcc.bug from the Newsgroups line.] In article <9001301520.AA26602@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu> jay@ALLIANT.BACKBONE.UOKNOR.EDU writes: ... message including Alliant's trade secret and copyright notice ... Then in article <25C74CB3.23250@paris.ics.uci.edu> rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette) writes: So much for "trade-secret" protection! As I understand the law, "trade secret" protection only extends to those things that you make some efforts to actually keep secret. Since Alliant is now posting their header file sources to the net, I guess that Alliant had better hope that their copyright claim is still valid because their trade secret claim certainly had been rendered ludicrous. ---------------------------------------- Please look more closely. The copyrighted file was posted by an Alliant user, not by anyone at Alliant. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,cdecc40f7678d2a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-02-01 05:33:04 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!shelby!neon!Gang-of-Four!weening From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Not so secret trade secrets (was: gcc problems with Alliant) Message-ID: <WEENING.90Jan31192813@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Feb 90 03:28:13 GMT References: <9001301520.AA26602@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu> <25C74CB3.23250@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Distribution: gnu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 23 Posted: Thu Feb 1 04:28:13 1990 In-Reply-To: rfg@ics.uci.edu's message of 31 Jan 90 20:38:11 GMT