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From: martillo@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Yakim Martillo)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Swedish copyright laws
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Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 10:06:28 EST
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You can call Stallman's point of view as naive and unrealistic as you
want but he is totally upfront and clear about what he wants.  Some of
us were hacking Unix back since 1975 when ATT used to give it away
practically free to universities.  We were under the impression that
our work would remain free and available, because we were told ATT
can't sell software.  Then after the consent degree was promulgated,
suddenly all our work was owned by ATT and they were selling it as
their property as a trade secret.  Something is very wrong if the
laws permit such sleaze.  With Richard, such practices do not happen.