: Re: yacc: public domain? (flame on)

[dave]

> I seriously doubt that a court would interpret agreeing to abide
> by the university's rules and regulations, which are generally explicit and
> published in a booklet, as agreeing to abide by every contract the university
> ever signed.
> 
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> 	Geoff Kuenning
> 	...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff

To my mind, it doesn`t matter if AT&T still has LEGAL control over UNIX;
I think, especially with V6, they have lost their trade-secret protection.
Does this mean that we should go ahead and use UNIX without compensation
to AT&T?  I think not.  The lawyers, out there, might want each corporation
to abide by whatever the legal code says, but I think what is missing from
the system is a sense of "Right and Wrong"; one does not take his neighbors
automobile because he left the keys in it.
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Dave Messer   ...inhp4!stolaf!umn-cs!circadia!dave