Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!elg From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY Message-ID: <4723@killer.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 02:24:09 GMT References: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> <880001@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 23 In message <880001@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>, spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) says: >Now, wait a second!!! Don't be so quick to jump to ATT's call... I haven't >seen the posting (wish I had..) but just because something is called YACC >doesn't mean that its automatically owned by ATT. True. But AT&T insiders looked at the sources to the so-called "PD Yacc" a few months ago, and said, "That's YACC. All they did was change a few variable names and fix some bugs." In other words, the so-called "PD" YACC WAS AT&T YACC, slightly massaged to look a little different. At least, according to earlier posters (I haven't looked at the sources, myself -- why bother, when BISON is available from RMS and the FSF?). >Don't be bullied by BS from people just 'cause they have large names behind >them.... And don't assume that it's BS just because it comes from a large company! -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.