software ethics

[Dave Farber]

I am sorry Lauren, but when a company takes and declares
restricted under trade secret things which are just
not reasonable to so do, it is more than ethical
to argue with them. 

Surpose someone suddenly declared that top down parsing
was a trade secret beacuse it is used in some part of Unix
(must be somewhere). What do we do then?

The protection of creative works should be protected
but not using that route.