Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!vx2!spector From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY Message-ID: <880003@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 7 Jul 88 14:42:00 GMT References: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 21 Don't assume its TRUE just because its from a large company. If the sources are indeed YACC then they should be removed. All I am suggesting is that just because someone writes a parser generator and calls it YACC doesn't mean that ATT owns their soul. In this case, since the sources seem to belong to ATT they should, of course, be removed. a related point: see this week's INFOWORLD, PC-WEEK, et al about IBM's RISC and virtual memory "patents". Thay have yet to be specific about what items they have patented, but imagine every 2nd year CS student getting a letter from IBM for implementing a model VM machine... (a far out example I know, but hey... :-) _DHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business Arpa: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center UUCP:...!{allegra,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "What computer puts out work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you." XYZZYGLORP