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Date: Sun 31-Jan-1989 18:13:01 From: Unknown Subject: Re: NeXT source code... Any university buying into the NeXT deal should as an absolute minimum insist on a software deposit agreement, so that NeXT is required to deposit all sources with a neutral third party, to be released should NeXT cease operations or cease supporting the product. This is a necessity when dealing with a small company like NeXT. Ask anyone with an "orphan" machine. Visualize your career as an academic administrator if you were responsible for acquiring, say, a thousand machines that were orphaned when the maker went under and there was no way to ever support the software. John Nagle >From: gil@daffy.gatech.edu (Gil Neiger)
Date: Sun 02-Feb-1989 18:28:00 From: Unknown Subject: Re: NeXT source code... In hearing all this stuff about NeXT source code, I was reminded of the little episode with the NeXT browser on the Mac. For those of you who don't know about it, a programmer in the SF Bay area ported the Browser to the Mac and posted a limited version to the BMUG BBS. Steve Jobs called the guy a few days later and told him to can it. He said that if any company tries to copy the interface at some future time, he needs to be protected legally and that means that there can't be some unauthorized program running around. I guess this also applies to source. Steve wants to protect his legal rights and if he releases the code, he won't have any rights as far as look and feel go. Actually, I wrote him a note about the program and suggested that he give the guy rights to distribute it or have NeXT distribute it as a NeXT product. He blew me off, (said thanks for the idea) but I guess that shows he's not interested indoing anything that might remotely compromise his legal position. anyway? -Ace swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu >From: rfr@cs.cmu.edu (Rick Rashid)
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