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Re: [PLUG] :Cue:Cat and Intellectual Property
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:38:14PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jack Wilkinson wrote:
>
> >what do you guys think of this?
>
> I saw it on Slashdot today. It seems as though they are saying, "We may
> do something at some point in the future, if we find a legal excuse to
> do it. And if we *do* decide to do something, you can bet it'll be
> bad."
yes, I saw the slashdot stuff, in fact I brought it up with cmdrtaco on irc
today, and have been in a daylong discussion about it (#kuro5hin on
irc.slashnet.org if you're interested) with various passers-by, since we
have the platform-independant version. It seems like a simple scare, and
I'm going to write a letter back to them (after passing it through a lawyer
and such, of course) explaining my take on your next paragraph, which I
mostly agree with.
>
> Personally, I don't see how this infringes on any of their rights.
> Somebody figured out how to talk to the scanner (several people,
> actually) and wrote programs to do just that. They're not claiming that
> the software is from the manufacturer, they're not selling it, and
> they're not trying to sell the hardware. Anybody else have any thoughts
> on this?
>
> Was this delivered to you today?
>
> Bill
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