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[Steve Feldman]

Regarding:
	Side note on Doug's "Regents" remark:  I feel it's inconsistent
	for a group-- like Berkeley or AT&T--to claim to be interested
	in software portability and then copyright its work.  Copyrighting
	is a far greater impediment to portability than the number of
	letters you use in variable names.

Unfortunately, the people doing the programming are not the ones who
make decisions about copyrights and licensing.  The CSRG at Berkeley
really had no choice about these matters.  They have to follow policies
set by the University.  The same is undoubtedly true of AT&T.  (It has
been said that the University lawyers would never sign the BSD agreement
themselves.  I tend to believe it.)

		Steve Feldman
		Tymshare
		(Formerly of the Berkeley CSRG)