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!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!farber@udel-huey.ARPA From: farber@udel-huey.ARPA (Dave Farber) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: software ethics Message-ID: <8892@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 21:03:36 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8892 Posted: Sun Mar 3 21:03:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:05:13 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 11 I am sorry Lauren, but when a company takes and declares restricted under trade secret things which are just not reasonable to so do, it is more than ethical to argue with them. Surpose someone suddenly declared that top down parsing was a trade secret beacuse it is used in some part of Unix (must be somewhere). What do we do then? The protection of creative works should be protected but not using that route.