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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (33247)	11/8/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Brian, You state the premise that the O/S should be public domain. This is not the way it works and never has. That's because the PC has been a unique marketing experiment. It's uniqueness, by itself, calls for new ideas about the software running on it. IBM blew it with what was an absolutely brilliant marketing concept (IMO). The languages such as C or C++ or whatever are for all practical purposes public domain Brian, either someone owns the software or they don't. "Practical purposes" serve no interest in copyright law. But, I don't see what that has to do with what I have been saying. Do you mean that there can be different C compilers for the PC, but are all copyrightable and since they generate the O/S, it should be copyrightable as well???? cheers, cherylw