Re: copyright vs. antitrust

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Eric Eldred <eldred[_at_]eldritchpress.org> wrote:
>
> A recent Slashdot discussion (of a 1980 interview with Bill Gates
> by "80 Micro" magazine) gave similar evidence that Microsoft sees
> copyright as nothing more than another way to protect trade secrets
> and competitive advantage. Perhaps the trial will result in some
> better thinking about the basis for copyright in our law.

    Now why would they think such a thing? While it's true copyright might help defend unpublished trade secrets, everything of interest (i.e. "trade secrets" in the object code) is published in the case of software.

Lynn

Lynn Winebarger
<owinebar[_at_]free-expression.org> Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 13:41:35 GMT