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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:3682 misc.legal.computing:1501 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!mcsun!uknet!siesoft!athen!tim From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,misc.legal.computing Subject: Re: Poisoned textbooks and net articles? Message-ID: <1992Aug13.144106.20520@sinix.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 92 14:41:06 GMT References: <1992Aug5.224337.6733@cirrus.com> <1992Aug10.225150.29474@unislc.uucp> <7154@skye.ed.ac.uk> Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS Lines: 24 In article <7154@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes: > >A lot of people buy books in order to learn more about how to >write programs. These books are copyrighted. Do we have to >artificially skew our code so that we don't use exactly the >same technique we read about or what? > THAT'S IT!! All we have to do is persuade Donald Knuth to sue AT&T to infringing his ``intellectual property''. While he is at it he can sue IBM, Microsoft, Apple...... Folks, start writing those letters to Dr. K! Tim. -- Tim Bissell | best... tim@athen.uucp Work:+49 89 636 49542 | hmm... tim%sinix@germany.eu.net Home:+49 89 692 5263 | UK only... uk.co.uel!sinix!athen!tim -- Tim Bissell | best... tim@athen.uucp Work:+49 89 636 49542 | hmm... tim%sinix@germany.eu.net Home:+49 89 692 5263 | UK only... uk.co.uel!sinix!athen!tim