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From: dj@godot.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
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Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property"
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Date: 14 Aug 92 07:50:44 GMT
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In article 18970@telematics.com, ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:
>(ObDisclaimer: I'm no lawyer, and don't even play one :-))
>All of this does seem to argue against academia and others who are
>interested in free distribution of research and results from getting
>involved with "protected" code, since the "black box" approaches
>used in industry for reverse engineering are probably too expensive
>and provide too little benefit to be worth while.

Hmmm.... Though they could be useful for an academic site setting up a course
on reversed engineering and implementing clean room procedures. B)

>
>ted
>-- 
>Ted Goldblatt    ted@telematics.com     (305) 351-4367
>    Telematics Intl., Inc.   Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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