To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Earnest, Thanks for posting this.
As a member of the programming preisthood from the early sixties, I can say with a fair degree of modesty that R. X. Cringeley's article is about an accurate description of the situation as I have ever seen.
11 posted on
06/24/2003 7:27:11 PM PDT by
Stump.Puller
(May God Bless America, and the Old South in particular.)
To: Stump.Puller
It will likely take a few years to see if he is right! But he seems to have a good argument to me, but I know nothing about Intellectual Property Rights!
I know IBM has had some big battles over just that particularly with Hitachi when they were copying sections of MVS code!
14 posted on
06/24/2003 7:32:11 PM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
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