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From: dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer)
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Subject: Re: Questions from the Soviets about UNIX
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Date: 1 Jan 89 21:08:14 GMT
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In article <661@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks) writes:
>Remember the Soviets do NOT honor U.S. (or anyone else's) copywrite laws.
>So they will pirate SCO Xenix at the institutional level.  I say no help
>unless we can be sure that SCO, ATT, et al are protected.
>Richard Marks

I recall reading many years ago that the USSR does honor foreign copywrites,
but this was with respect to books.  As far as preventing persons in
the USSR from getting SCO and ATT software goes, there is no way to
stop it since this software is available to anyone in stores or by
mail.  There are lots of visitors from the USSR in the U.S. including
embassy UN personnel as well as tourists and I would expect that much
of our software has already been obtained by them.