Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: mac-compatible design technique Message-ID: <4745@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 19:38:10 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4745 Posted: Fri Dec 7 19:38:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 19:38:10 EST References: <700@amd.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry