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- From: dj@godot.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property"
- Message-ID: <Bsyr4L.EqM@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 07:50:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com>
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- Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes
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- In article 18970@telematics.com, ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:
- >(ObDisclaimer: I'm no lawyer, and don't even play one :-))
- >All of this does seem to argue against academia and others who are
- >interested in free distribution of research and results from getting
- >involved with "protected" code, since the "black box" approaches
- >used in industry for reverse engineering are probably too expensive
- >and provide too little benefit to be worth while.
-
- Hmmm.... Though they could be useful for an academic site setting up a course
- on reversed engineering and implementing clean room procedures. B)
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- >
- >ted
- >--
- >Ted Goldblatt ted@telematics.com (305) 351-4367
- > Telematics Intl., Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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