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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: mac-compatible design technique
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 19:38:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 19:38:10 1984
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> You will very often find copyrighted proprietary information.
>
> Try the source code for Unix.

Not so!  Unix source code hasn't carried copyright notices for a long
time.  Why?  Because copyright implies *publication*, and is -- more or
less, roughly speaking -- incompatible with trade-secret protection,
which is how Unix innards are protected.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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