Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tymix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!tymix!feldman From: feldman@tymix.UUCP (Steve Feldman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: file access Message-ID: <176@tymix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 23:00:33 EST Article-I.D.: tymix.176 Posted: Sat Feb 4 23:00:33 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 06:15:21 EST References: <640@elsie.UUCP> Organization: Tymshare Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 17 Regarding: Side note on Doug's "Regents" remark: I feel it's inconsistent for a group-- like Berkeley or AT&T--to claim to be interested in software portability and then copyright its work. Copyrighting is a far greater impediment to portability than the number of letters you use in variable names. Unfortunately, the people doing the programming are not the ones who make decisions about copyrights and licensing. The CSRG at Berkeley really had no choice about these matters. They have to follow policies set by the University. The same is undoubtedly true of AT&T. (It has been said that the University lawyers would never sign the BSD agreement themselves. I tend to believe it.) Steve Feldman Tymshare (Formerly of the Berkeley CSRG)