Re: mac-compatible design technique

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1984 00:38

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> You will very often find copyrighted proprietary information.
>
> Try the source code for Unix.

Not so!  Unix source code hasn't carried copyright notices for a long
time.  Why?  Because copyright implies *publication*, and is -- more or
less, roughly speaking -- incompatible with trade-secret protection,
which is how Unix innards are protected.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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