brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (04/13/90)
In article <1NT2K:Exds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: [ in reference to the European Community's proposed Copyright Directive ] > The ability to copyright program interfaces to packages takes the already > dubious "look-n-feel" copyrights to a new and absurd height. That's an understatement. For thousands of years ideas have been free. Now AT&T will be able to stifle all UNIX competition by copyrighting the v7 interface; Xerox and Apple will win their suits against Apple and Microsoft respectively on copyright grounds and the Presentation Manager will follow the Macintosh into the grave; RSA Incorporated will wallow in income from their new RSA encryption copyright; Chomsky will copyright half of theoretical computer science; and the next car you buy won't have a steering wheel. This frightens me. Followups to comp.misc. ---Dan