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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal
Subject: Re: yacc: public domain?
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:08:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 13:08:25 1985
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Remember there is a class of UNIX(tm) users who are not routinely subject to
non-disclosure agreements, using systems where access to sources is not
typically restricted.  These users are college students and professors, and
hackers who break into these systems as well.

Can AT&T make a strong claim that these sources are a secret in view of the
probability that any given software engineer could have perused them at
length as a student?  Does the trade secret act deal with the legality of
some hacker breaking into a university computer, taking accessible
information, and using/distributing/publishing it?  Doesn't the
non-disclosure agreement only cover non-disclosure of information you could
not easily obtain elsewhere?

Go for it oh legal eagles.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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