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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Letter asking for help with Apple from the US VP
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.031436.11940@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Sep21.091025.14759@kth.se> <1992Sep21.182121.8203@puma.ATL.GE.COM> <BZS.92Sep21192823@ussr.std.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 03:14:36 GMT
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In article <BZS.92Sep21192823@ussr.std.com> bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>The underlying question is how many of our tax dollars should be spent
>in the form of courts, sherrifs, law enforcement, etc. to provide
>those engaged in strategic litigation with such monopolies?
>
>Remember, they can't do these kind of things without our help in the
>form of massive tax dollar subsidies.
>
>Some such protection is justified, but what we as a citizenry have to
>examine are the limits: When does a company have a bona-fide right to
>their intellectual property, and when are they just abusing the edges
>of the law to cause tax-payers to enforce a monopoly for them?
Speaking of which from the 14 Sep 92 (volume 9, number 37) PC Week:
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A search of Symantec CEO Gordon Eubank's office
and two residences, conducted by the Santa Cruz
County District Attourney's Office on Sept. 2, turned
up items the DA's office called "critical, confidential
information about Borland's business." These items include:
o E-mail from former Borland Vice President Gene Wang to
Eubanks dated 8/20/92 and 8/26/92.
o A beige canvas "Symantec: bag containing a folder with
miscellaneous papers identified as memos and
confidential typed notes with Borland mentioned.
o Miscellaneous memos, letters and correspondance, found
in a garbage can, identifying Wang.
o 13 books and pamphlets published for "Borland
International" found on a bookshelf.
The DA's office also confiscated items from Wang's home, including:
o Software and documentation sent by mail listing information
on Borland languages software.
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HUMOR IMPAIRMENT LINE! DO NOT CROSS! HUMOR IMPAIRMENT LINE! DO NOT CROSS!
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Obviously, no company president would correspond in any fashion
with an individual prior to hiring them... think of the evil Symantec
could wreak if potential employees sent >*gasp!*< _resumes_! And we all
know that the standards and high levels of system administration on the
Internet make forging mail messages impossible!
The "typed notes" mentioning Borland are an obvious attempt by
Symantec to compete with Borland for revenues by doing _market research_!
The scoundrels!
And the memos about/to/from Wang! What *evil* can Symantec have
mind? Perhaps Symantec managment, even as this is being written, is
*communicating* with *other* employees!
Purchasing published materials! And from Borland! Has the man
no taste?!? And "13"! A cabalistic number if ever there was one! Perhaps
he has fallen in with the politicians in a pursuit of "voodoo" economics!
But the worst of all, Wang! What "Hannibal Lector" mentality
prompted him to get his name put on a mailing list?!? The scourolous
depths to which humanity may descend!
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HUMOR IMPAIRMENT LINE! DO NOT CROSS! HUMOR IMPAIRMENT LINE! DO NOT CROSS!
8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
Seriously, I think it's time to rethink intellectual propertly
law on software, probably in terms of patents rather than copyrights...
hopefully with a most a 7 year limitation before the protection runs out.
All of this BS is getting a bit ridiculous.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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