How is copyright applied when it belongs to a corporate identity, eg. Psion or Microsoft? My spell checker accepts Microsoft, but it doesn't accept Unix. I wonder why?
John Taylor. On 5 Nov 2005, at 23:34, Colin Parsons wrote: > >> John Taylor wrote: >> >>> Geoff >>> >>> 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. >> >> 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. >> > Thanks to the EEC it is now Author Life + 70 years > > Cheers > > Colin > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
