Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA From: lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T and Unix Message-ID: <7370@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:55:34 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7370 Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:55:34 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 05:05:32 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 Exactly my point. The sources for many other operating systems and software, including things like MSDOS, CP/M, and a whole range of application software, are in general also not available or at least not available except at a very high price. There is nothing unique about the Unix situation, and nothing that disqualifies it from the same protections that other property possess. In any case, I've made my (hard line? call it what you will) feelings about this quite clear -- I consider software copying in these situations to be theft, period. This whole discussion probably would belong in net-ethics. Except there isn't such a group. Perhaps there should be. I wonder how many people would subscribe to it? --Lauren--