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- From: rms@hoggle2.UUCP (Richard Stallman)
- Subject: Help With the status line
- Message-ID: <9211200924.AA34829@hoggle2.UUCP>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
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- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- References: <1992Nov18.212235.23653@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:24:12 GMT
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- This might seem unrelated to your request for help,
- but it is related.
-
- I've learned that Intergraph is claiming to have copyright
- on all the interfaces and even the file formats used
- in their operating system. This is a uniquely nasty behavior
- for any computer company.
-
- Assuming that you're asking for help so you can do your
- work for Intergraph, it seems that the community is being abused:
- Intergraph is (thru you) asking us for cooperation with one hand
- while the other hand is readying the knife. It seems that poeple
- should think twice about how to respond.
-
- I suggest you think about Intergraph's policy, and raise it as
- an ethical issue with your fellow employees.
-
- The management will quite likely tell you to shut up and leave ethical
- questions to them (so they can file them in the bit bucket and do
- whatever seems profitable); if they do, you will need to refuse,
- pointing out that considering the ethics of a collective activity such
- as a business is the responsibility of everyone participating in it.
-
- You (and other readers) can get more information about this kind of
- issue by contacting lpf@uunet.uu.net or ftp'ing information from
- ftp.uu.net (sorry, I don't remember the directory, but it's
- named lpf and is just one or two levels down the tree).
-