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Re: Overreaching Copyright Claims (was Bullshit Copyright Legends)

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From: A J Annala
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1989 02:37
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In article <3703@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>As I'm not a lawyer, I won't venture an opinion as to whether such a
>suit would be successful.  But evidently NeXT's and Data General's
>lawyers . . . at least decided to "do the right thing".
... this is precisely my point ... people should be asked to "do the
right thing" without the need to try to force them to do so by using
federal intellectual property laws for a purpose for which they were
never intended.  
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From: annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala)
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Subject: Re: Overreaching Copyright Claims (was Bullshit Copyright Legends)
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Date: 7 Nov 89 02:37:49 GMT
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