Την Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:34:33 -0500,ο(η) Colin Parsons  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε:

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>> John Taylor wrote:
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>>> Geoff
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>>> Quanta approached Psion years ago and they raised no objections.
>>> They regretted that they were unable to help as the source code had
>>> been mothballed, but if ever they had recourse to it they assured
>>> Quanta that they would let us have a copy.
>>> We were talking, if I remember correctly, about the XChange suite and
>>> not just Quill, though the enquiry centred on Quill.
>>> Patents have a limited life, it is a pity copyright doesn't too.
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>> AFAIK, copyright does have a limited life: it used to be/is something  
>> like
>> author.death+50 years.  However, in the world of software, >that is
>> effectively limitless.
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> Thanks to the EEC it is now Author Life + 70 years
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What's the EEC? I thought that was dead too ;-)

Ffibys
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