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- From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,misc.legal.computing
- Subject: Re: Poisoned textbooks and net articles?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.144106.20520@sinix.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:41:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.224337.6733@cirrus.com> <1992Aug10.225150.29474@unislc.uucp> <7154@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS
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- In article <7154@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
- >
- >A lot of people buy books in order to learn more about how to
- >write programs. These books are copyrighted. Do we have to
- >artificially skew our code so that we don't use exactly the
- >same technique we read about or what?
- >
-
- THAT'S IT!! All we have to do is persuade Donald Knuth to sue AT&T
- to infringing his ``intellectual property''. While he is at it he
- can sue IBM, Microsoft, Apple......
-
- Folks, start writing those letters to Dr. K!
-
- Tim.
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- Tim Bissell | best... tim@athen.uucp
- Work:+49 89 636 49542 | hmm... tim%sinix@germany.eu.net
- Home:+49 89 692 5263 | UK only... uk.co.uel!sinix!athen!tim
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