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- From: learn@speedy.acns.nwu.edu (William J. Vajk)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.133620.6132@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:36:20 GMT
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- In article <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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- >In article <MJB.92Sep1163324@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> Matthew J Brown writes:
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- >>IMHO this issue is only of much importance to computing professionals.
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- >IMHO it's not. AT&T is effectively expanding intellectual property
- >protection in general.
-
- Not quite true. It is more akin to Henry Ford protecting the concept of
- assembly lines for his sole use. And anyone who has ever seen an assembly
- line is forever banned from manufacturing.
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- >I disagree with broadcast posting this sort of call to every group on other
- >grounds, but to claim that only computing professionals have an interest in
- >intellectual property laws is ridiculous.
-
- Actually, so do I. On the other hand, the pot needed a bit of stirring,
- this being the beginning of a new academic year. I am bored with the
- periodic trotting out of the same tired litanies. With any luck, they're
- out of the way for a while.
-
- Bill Vajk
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